List by Aaron Haughton

Cinema is no stranger to the sequel, but nowadays, it seems like just about anything gets a follow-up film — even the surprise indie Call Me By Your Name and the Netflix flop Bright have forthcoming sequels announced. While most of them span the gamut from bad to good, very few sequels are truly exceptional. Even more rare are the sequels that manage to surpass their predecessors.

In our mind, there're only a handful of films that are qualified to be in this category, and we've cut them down to what we feel is a solid list of ten. These are our picks for the greatest sequels of all time: