How to retrieve Salesforce reports (in a subfolder) using VS Code

Question

How can we retrieve SF reports in visual studio code, I have tried below options:

1). Using manifest.xml -> Nothing happened, no reports extracted and no error shown either.

2). Using sfdx force:source:retrieve -m Report:folder1/reportAPIName1: this is working fine but one report at a time.

Also, please advise, if there is a way to retrieve reports in the same format what we get using ANT(metadata API). Our CI/CD tools are still using mdapi's.

thanks in advance.