April 2026 Movie Reviews: Send Help, Wuthering Heights, Crime 101

This April, let’s take a look at three newly streaming 2026 releases. Are any of these films really worth checking out in your allotted movie-viewing hours?

Send Help (2026)

20th Century Studios, 113 minutes

Send Help is a Sam Raimi survival thriller about a woman named Linda Liddle who is passed over on a deserved promotion by her awful new boss. The tables are turned, though, when Linda, a diehard Survivor fan with an abundance of survival skills, and said boss are the only survivors of a plane crash and end up stranded on an island. Tension quickly mounts as the two must learn to work together to survive.

The film is very much in the Sam Raimi campy horror style at points. The director’s signature brand of dark humor is also mixed in. Personally, I’m not usually a huge fan of this type of horror or comedy, which I find neither particularly funny, scary, or enjoyable.

As far as films go, however, Send Help is totally fine. It’s definitely watchable, though I found it to also be sort of one-note and predictable. Once our characters end up on the island where we spend the majority of the film, the movie is what it is – there are no real surprises. 

Rachel McAdams, as the lead Linda, helps elevate the film. I enjoyed her performance more than I did Dylan O’Brien, who plays opposite her as her boss.

Overall, if you’re a Raimi fan, I think you’ll appreciate Send Help. For everyone else though, it’s likely just a slightly above-average, totally acceptable thriller. It’s an alright way to spend almost two hours, but nothing to write home about. 

Grade: 5.5/10

Wuthering Heights (2026)

Warner Bros. Pictures, 136 minutes

Wuthering Heights, which was written and directed by Emerald Fennell, is a romantic period piece based on the 1847 novel of the same name by Emily Brontë. However, the film is certainly more loosely based on the book as it’s not particularly loyal to the source material.

The movie is definitely going for having more of a vibe and is more concerned with its look and feel than with its story. Wuthering Heights encapsulates the notion of style over substance. Still, I do appreciate the visuals of the movie. It might not be accurate to the time period it’s representing, but that doesn’t mean it’s not pretty or interesting to look at.

Overall, though, I just don’t see why this is a story anyone would want to tell. The characters we follow, Catherine and Heathcliff, who are portrayed in the film by Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi respectively, are extremely unlikeable. We’re basically watching two incredibly toxic characters with zero redeeming qualities. The performances are fine, but these aren’t characters you’d root for or that are particularly intriguing.

Wuthering Heights has the feel of a guilty pleasure movie. Personally, however, I like my guilty pleasure movies with a bit more pleasure. This simply isn’t an enjoyable story in any shape or form.

Grade: 4.5/10

Crime 101 (2026)

Amazon MGM Studios, 140 minutes

Crime 101 is a crime thriller that premiered on Prime Video earlier this month. The film is based on a novella, but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a movie that feels more like it was written by artificial intelligence after the AI was prompted: Please generate the most generic, mediocre crime movie possible.

This is about as unoriginal a film as you can get and it’s loaded with movie tropes. Crime 101 centers on a methodical and well-put-together jewel thief, played by Chris Hemsworth. As you might expect, he’s not really a bad guy – he has a moral compass and never really uses violence.

Hemsworth’s character is being hunted by an equally cliché character – a detective who appears to be the only good cop on the force. He has marital problems, though, and is played by Mark Ruffalo, an actor who expertly portrays these sorts of sad sack characters. 

There are also a shoehorned-in romance and a truly evil villain after the same loot as our protagonist. With these sorts of movies, you’re always going to have to suspend some disbelief, but Crime 101 really ventures into ridiculous territory. Character actions, especially later in the film, often do not make sense given their motivations and characterizations.

Overall, the acting is fine here, but this is probably one to just skip. Even for an unoriginal, generic action flick there’s just too much here that doesn’t work. 

Grade: 4.5/10