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Call it a hot take if you want, but there is no greater feat in cinema than creating a timeless comedy. That’s because no film genre ages worse. Drama, horror and romance movies all tap into innate human desires and anxieties that anyone from any generation can understand. But comedy is all about context. What’s funny in 1925 might not make a lick of sense to 2025 audiences. Humour is also deeply individualistic: one person’s ROTFLMAO is another’s shrug emoji. That makes coming up with the best comedy films of all-time especially challenging. There’s a lot that goes into identifying truly great comedy, but the main one has to do with durability. Is this film still funny now, and will it still be years from now? In sorting the GOATs from the groaners, we enlisted the help of comedians like Diane Morgan and Russell Howard, actors such as John Boyega and Jodie Whittaker and a small army of Time Out writers. And the films we came up with represent the 100 most hilarious – and most lasting – laughers ever made. We can’t be sure they’ll all make you laugh. But if they don’t… well, that sounds like a ‘you’ problem. Recommended: 🔥 The 100 best movies of all-time🤣 The best comedies of 2024🥰 The greatest romantic comedies of all time

All war is hell, but Vietnam was a specific kind of nightmare for America. Fought for spurious reasons and ending with little to show for all the bloodshed, it left a generation scarred and began the United States’ long decline as the world’s hero. Coinciding with an era in Hollywood where filmmakers were already growing more cynical and suspicious toward the government at large, the movies about the conflict naturally feature much less rah-rah patriotism than those set during World War II. In fact, many of them are basically horror films. How many, though, are historically accurate? With 2025 marking the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon, and thus the end of the war, we asked military historian Professor Geoffrey Wawro, author of acclaimed account The Vietnam War, to rank the most well-known Vietnam War movies, not necessarily by quality, but by just how reflective they are of the reality of the war. Here’s how they stacked up. Recommended:  📽️ The 50 best war movies ever made🪖 The 50 best World War II movies🎖️ World War I films ranked by historical accuracy

September 2025 update: This month’s addition is perhaps the most surprising: Splitsville, an indie screwball farce about two couples stumbling into open marriages, which somehow manages to be one of 2025’s best romantic comedies while also containing the year’s best fight scene.  At this point in 2025, it’s possible to look at the year in movies and draw a few conclusions. Superhero movies aren’t ‘out’ but they’re no longer guaranteed juggernauts. Kiddie flicks do big business. Gen Z is starting to generate its own IP. Audiences love horror. China doesn’t need the rest of the world to blow up the international box office. And, lo and behold, there is still a place at the multiplex for original stories. Overall, after much hangwringing post-pandemic, the film industry looks to be in decent health. Of course, many of those takeaways could still get blown up – after all, there are still four months left on the calendar, and awards season is just getting underway. But if you look at the year so far, one thing that can be said for sure is there are plenty of reasons to feel hopeful about cinema as an artform, whether it’s the blockbuster success of genre-smashing auteur vehicles like Sinners and Weapons, daring formal experiments such as Nickel Boys, Flow and Better Man and heartening returns to form for masters like Steven Soderbergh and Danny Boyle. While there’s much more to come, there’s much to celebrate already. Here are the movies we’ve loved the most so far.   ...

Hear us out: October might just be the best month of the year to travel. In the Northern Hemisphere, trees have taken on gorgeous shades of orange and red, while down south, spring is settling in nicely. The weather is pleasant – not too hot, not too cold – and when the peak-season crowds have dissipated, accommodation, flights and activities tend to be a lot more reasonable.  From internationally famous events to forward-thinking sustainable travel via ice, earth and sky, the best places to travel in October are Hall of Fame destinations. So, whether you’re after somewhere cheap and hot, or down to explore a thrilling new city, dust off your passport and get a bag packed – the time to travel is now. RECOMMENDED:✈️ The best places to travel every month of the year🏘️ The world's best winter sun destinations Need more inspo? Check out our latest travel guides, written by local writers. 

It’s easy to forget that Halloween is primarily a holiday tailored to children. So while it’s fun to fill the movie queue with adult-level scares, it’s important for parents to reserve some time for more entry-level frights. You really don’t have an excuse not to, as Netflix makes doing so a breeze. The streamer has tons of Halloween-themed content that’s spookily entertaining for the wee ones but won’t have them hiding behind the couch. This October, grab a bowl of candy corn and throw on one of these great scary (but not too scary) flicks for the little ghouls in your house.  Recommended: 🎃 The best Halloween movies of all-time👻 The best Halloween movies for kids of all-ages👪 The 50 best family films to stream on movie night

September update: a quietish month for the genre ahead of October’s gnarly line-up does have one headline horror in The Conjuring: Last Rites, which wraps up an $800 million franchise is solidly spooky fashion. Unlike many of its monsters, vampires and virus-y Alphas, the horror genre is alive and well. It is, you might even say, well-endowed. Because anyone who loves that shivery sensation of being spooked witless in a cinema is being a lot better served than anyone searching for big laughs. The biggest stories in horror this year – Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, Zach Cregger’s Weapons – have packed in audiences and birthed a million memes along the way, but don’t sleep on the following flicks either.RECOMMENDED: 🎃 The 100 best horror films ever made😱 The scariest movies based on a true story 🔥 The best horror films of 2024

What separates a psychological thriller from a regular old thriller? As the phrase implies, it mostly has to do with the mind. In the best examples, special attention is paid to the mental disposition of its characters, and the thrills themselves are derived from how those motivations influence the movement of the plot. That might make it sound highfalutin, but the greatest psychological thrillers play on elemental fears, traumas and delusions to send goosebumps racing up the viewer’s arms. As one particularly disturbed young man once said, we all go a little mad sometimes – and that’s what makes the genre so relatable… and frightening.  Taking all that into consideration, we probed the most shadowy corners of cinema to put together this list of the best psychological thrillers ever made. Some are tense and twisty, others are more meditative, but nearly all of them will leave you feeling dizzy, discombobulated and probably in need of some fresh air afterward. Recommended: 😬 The 100 best thriller movies of all-time🍆 The 35 steamiest erotic thrillers💣 The 101 best action movies of all-time🔥 The 100 best movies of all-time

Crime movies often provide the vicarious thrill of watching people live outside the law – robbing banks, running from cops, getting into shootouts and either narrowly escaping or going out in a blaze of glory. Movies about serial killers, however, are another beast entirely. They force us to peer into the darkest, coldest, most frightening corners of the human psyche. And the scariest thing is, there’s probably a lot more of them out there in the real world than ultra-cool bank robbers. But serial killers are most often made, not born – and the best movies about them interrogate the conditions that create them as much as they try to shock us by their existence. In considering the best serial-killer movies ever made, we prioritised those that go beyond mere exploitation or transgressive voyeurism. Some might be categorised as horror, others as noirs or procedurals. All of them will leave you shaken, in one way or another. Recommended: 🩸 The 15 scariest horror movies based on true stories💣 The 100 best thrillers of all time😱 The 100 best horror movies of all time🕵️ The 40 best murder-mystery movies

‘Overtourism’. It’s more than a buzzword – in the world’s most popular destinations, it’s a problem that affects almost every aspect of local life, from the environment to the cost of renting, transport and eating out. And when a place is overwhelmed by people, it’s not only locals’ quality of life that suffers; the quality of your trip does, too. But it’s not all bad. Destinations are coming up with ways to redistribute tourism from densely crowded hotspots to lesser-visited regions. Travellers are seeking cooler climes and embracing slow travel, allowing space to discover somewhere new. And they’re still riding the ‘destination dupes’ trend, where overrun holiday destinations are swapped out for less crowded, less expensive, but just-as-good alternatives. On our newly updated list of the world’s most underrated travel destinations, you won’t find your Bangkoks or your Balis, your Amalfis or your Amsterdams. What you will find is the hidden side of Yosemite, the French Riviera’s overlooked twin, a place where penguins outnumber people, and plenty more travel inspo where that came from.Why trust us? Because we’ve been to them all. Every spot on this list was picked by one of our expert editors and globetrotting travel writers, recommended because they offer great (or quiet) alternatives to the classics – and in many cases, because they’re places that actually want tourism. In other words, travelling to any of these 33 criminally overlooked destinations is a win-win...

Summer is winding down, which for true film nerds means the most wonderful time of the year is upon us. That’s right, it’s fall movie season, when studios drop their major awards contenders and buzzed-over festival hits. The overall film year has felt particularly end-heavy: while the first half of 2025 came with its share of critical and commercial hits, from Sinners to Weapons, the back of the calendar looks loaded, with big releases from beloved directors like Paul Thomas Anderson, Kathryn Bigelow and Lynne Ramsay, a few heavily tipped Oscar contenders, a couple smaller films with the potential to surprise everyone – and even some blockbusters. Here are the movies we’re most excited about in fall 2025.  Recommended: 🎥 The best movies of 2025 (so far)🔥 The best TV and streaming shows of 2025