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4 of the best films to watch this May

The Bob's Burgers Movie

After 12 seasons and more than 200 episodes, the much-loved animated sitcom finally makes it to the big screen. In The Bob's Burgers Movie, a huge sinkhole opens in the street in front of the Belcher family's fast-food restaurant, so the intrepid children (voiced by Dan Mintz, Eugene Mirman and Kristen Schaal) investigate. Loren Bouchard, the series' creator, promises a "musical comedy mystery adventure" that retains the programme's warmth and quickfire humour.

Released internationally on 27 May

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Marvel's latest blockbuster has the Sorcerer Supreme (Benedict Cumberbatch) venturing beyond our own universe and into countless other realities, where he and Scarlet Witch/ Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) meet various versions of themselves. The film's director, Sam Raimi, is best known for The Evil Dead, and the Spider-Man trilogy starring Tobey Maguire, so who better to put horror and superheroes into one film? DSITMOM is "spooky at some times and scary at others," Raimi told Fandango. "It's unknown what you'll find in the multiverse. It's within that unknown that suspense and darkness exists... Plus, Doctor Strange in the comics has always dealt in universes and dimensions that were quite spooky, so we tried to bring some of that into this film."

Released internationally on 6 May

Top Gun: Maverick

It's been delayed and delayed and delayed again, but Top Gun: Maverick is flying into cinemas at last, exactly four years after shooting began in May 2018. In the first Top Gun film, which came out back in 1986, Tom Cruise starred as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a fighter pilot in the US Navy. All these years later, Mitchell is given the job of training a new batch of pilots, including "Rooster" Bradshaw (Miles Teller), the bitter son of his old buddy "Goose", who was killed in Top Gun. Val Kilmer is back as "Iceman" Kazansky, now a four-star general, and Jon Hamm joins the cast as an admiral called "Cyclone", so maybe the film will explain why Navy pilots all have superhero nicknames. Probably not, though. What we can expect are lots of vertigo-inducing supersonic flight sequences, and magazine-worthy shots of Cruise on the runway in his Aviator shades. Altogether now: "I feel the need, the need for speed."

Released internationally on 27 May

Firestarter

Firestarter, a horror film about psychic-powered children, is adapted from Stephen King's 1980 novel, and produced by Blumhouse (Paranormal Activity, Get Out). It's the story of Charlene "Charlie" McGee (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), a girl with "pyrokinesis": whenever she gets upset, things burst into flames. The previous adaptation came out in 1984, with Drew Barrymore in the title role. But the new film's director, Keith Thomas, believes that there was room for improvement. "The book's super rich," he told ComicBoom.com. "There's a lot of stuff that's in the book that isn't in the original film... I feel like there's a visceral quality to the story that I didn't see in the 80s version, a rawness that I think is there in the book."

Released internationally on 13 May