Can A Quiet Place: Day One and Alien: Romulus break the recent prequel curse? Films like Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga have bombed, for a variety of reasons. Is there a prequel formula that works?

Inside Me 2 follows Riley, now 13, who is dealing with some new emotions, from Anxiety to Envy, Embarrassment and Ennui in this solid sequel that does not quite hit the highs of the first film.

The director of Oscar-nominated Robot Dreams, Pablo Berger, opens up about adapting his animated movie from a tear-jerking graphic novel, and why it’s too real to be a children’s film.

Will Smith’s second film since the infamous Chris Rock slap at the 2022 Oscars fails to impress – Bad Boys: Ride or Die is weighed down by an ordinary plot and a script full of leaden dialogue.

From the Palme d’Or-winning Anora to The Surfer, starring one-man meme machine Nicolas Cage, to Emilia Pérez with Selena Gomez, 10 of the best movies unveiled at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Veteran Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke talks about Caught by the Tides, his 2024 Cannes Film Festival entry, which captures the changes he witnessed in the 20-something years in which it was shot.

Vietnamese director Minh Quy Truong’s third feature Viet and Nam, featuring at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, is a valiant, opaque expression of Vietnam’s collective trauma centred on two gay miners.

Yorgos Lanthimos returns to the opaque, off-kilter style of his early films in Kinds of Kindness, which is three films in one. Something of a reunion for the stars of Poor Things, this will divide opinion.

With nods to Shakespeare and Citizen Kane, Coppola mixes science fiction and satire in this long-awaited, daft but daring saga of an architect (Adam Driver) building a 21st century metropolis.

Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth are stellar in the latest episode in George Miller’s dystopian saga – this time set 15 years before 2015’s Fury Road which introduced Furiosa, played by Charlize Theron.

John Krasinski’s movie, starring Ryan Reynolds and Steve Carell, follows 12-year-old Bea (played by Cailey Fleming), who finds a doll-like imaginary friend (IF) in her grandmother’s building.

Freya Allan plays a human who joins a group of simians to track down a tyrannical ape ruler in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, a film that looks splendid but doesn’t quite deliver emotionally.

Starring Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal and directed by Andrew Haigh, All of us Strangers on Disney+ is a heart-shattering melodrama that dares to explore love and loneliness at its most raw.

Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt team up in this retread of the hit 1980s US TV series. Gosling plays an injured stuntman who is searching for the missing star of a sci-fi series directed by his ex (Blunt).

Abigail stars Alisha Weir as the titular 12-year-old daughter of a crime lord, who is kidnapped for a US$50 million ransom. Abigail is, however, a vampire, and takes her revenge on the extorters.

Zendaya plays a young tennis prodigy, while Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor play doubles partners who are both infatuated with her, in this romantic drama from Bones and All director Luca Guadagnino.

Anderson plays BBC journalist Emily Maitlis in a dramatisation of her 2019 interview with Prince Andrew about sexual misconduct allegations, and the lead-up to it. Rufus Sewell plays the hapless royal.

Horror classic The Omen, the story of the birth of the Antichrist, started a long-running franchise, including newly released prequel The First Omen, starring Nell Tiger Free, Bill Nighy and Charles Dance.

Po the panda, voiced by Jack Black, returns after an 8-year gap, and in this entertaining sequel, he’s on a quest to bring down the evil Chameleon (Viola Davis) with the help of an acrobatic fox (Awkwafina).

America is at war with itself in Ex Machina director Alex Garland’s evocative thriller Civil War, which takes a look at a fractured country through the eyes of members of the press.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, starring Paul Rudd, Mckenna Grace and Bill Murray, sees old and new ghostbusting teams work together again – but the story becomes increasingly chaotic the more it goes on.

Our 2024 Academy Awards predictions, from why Oppenheimer should and will win best picture, to how Ryan Gosling may be pipped at the post for best supporting actor.

Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya return in Denis Villeneuve’s excellent Dune: Part Two, which features amazing set pieces, stunning cinematography and thunderous, moving music.

Kristen Stewart in lesbian crime flick Love Lies Bleeding, trans tale I Saw the TV Glow, and Min Bahadur Bham’s Himalayan film Shambhala all feature in our picks of the best movies at Berlin 2024.

Shambala, the first Nepalese film selected for the Berlin Film Festival’s main competition, is an unhurried masterpiece about a Nepalese woman searching for her husband in the Himalayas.

Starring Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan and Paul Dano, Netflix sci-fi Spaceman – which premiered at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival – has its moments, but director Johan Renck struggles to sustain interest.

Ray Yeung’s film All Shall Be Well, about the struggles of a gay woman after her partner dies, is based on ‘shocking’ true events. The Hong Kong director talks about rights for same-sex couples.

Korean director Hong Sang-soo returns to the Berlin International Film Festival with another typically opaque drama – in A Traveler’s Needs, Isabelle Huppert plays a mystery woman teaching French in Korea.

Gael Garcia Bernal plays a widower whose wife is reanimated in the body of another woman (Renate Reinsve). Piero Messina’s film is hackneyed and gets bogged down in jargon, but is visually appealing.

English actor Cosmo Jarvis talks about bringing James Clavell’s 1975 novel Shōgun to life, studying feudal Japan, filming for 11 months in Canada and his co-star Hiroyuki Sanada.