The star makes a convincing Broadway debut in a tragicomic winner staged with thought and deft flashes of modernity

This year on Broadway promises major debuts from Steve Carell, Rachel McAdams and revivals of Doubt and The Wiz

This tale of earth-shattering events in a space-obsessed desert town leans nicely into its own artificiality, and every delicious, microscopic detail is a delight

Steve Carell’s beard seems to grow in real time in a ponderous psychological thriller; Gary Oldman and co return for more grubby sleuthing; and Claudia Winkleman channels Anne Robinson

Steve Carell and Domnhall Gleeson star in a gripping doctor-patient thriller, while Warwick Davis is off on another quest as the beloved sorcerer

Carell faces off against a conflicted serial killer, played by Domhnall Gleeson, in a hit-and-miss drama that tries to combine a suspense thriller and a character study

Steve Carell’s wannabe supervillain takes on the hippest bad guys on the block in this irrepressible latest Despicable Me outing

This fifth instalment in the Despicable Me animation series spirals back to 1976 and a stolen mega-powerful amulet but the plot is perfunctory and it runs on the faintest of fumes

The first season’s Weinstein-esque plot pivot added emotional heft to TMS’s glossiness. But as we kick off again, Apple’s drama is back to fluff and empty monologues

A look ahead, courtesy of movies set in the next 12 months, suggests we should expect natural disasters, all-consuming tech and a super swine flu