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Even after a couple of vintage years for new music, 2025 has been special. Sure, we didn’t get a clear-cut ‘song of the summer’, but artists have been instead putting out defining works in a longer format. The past 12 (well, 11) months have featured all manner of extraordinary album releases.  Belted-to-the-rafters country pop, plunderphonic majesty, ecstatic dance music, intimate electronic world-building, history-collapsing art rock, triumphant hip-hop… these are just a few of the sounds and styles that have been executed marvellously in 2025. Here are the year’s finest 25 albums, chosen by Time Out editors and contributors.

November 2025 update: Jack Whitehall goes full psycho – yep! – in Malice, which also boasts David Duchovny and some Greek island resplendence, while the first part of the finale of Stranger Things bringing things in Hawkins to a shadowy end on November 26. Other new adds include the third part of the BBC’s exceptional Belfast cop show Blue Lights and a couple of notable Netflix sequels.We’ve all heard the phrase ‘TV’s golden age’ enough times over the past couple of decades to get wary of the hyperbole, but this year does seem to be shaping up to be a kind of mini golden age for the TV follow-up. Severance, Andor, Wednesday and Poker Face have all built on incredibly satisfying first seasons with equally masterful second runs. The third season of The White Lotus has proved that, whether you love it or find it a touch too languorous, there’s no escaping Mike White’s transgressive privilege-in-paradise satire. Likewise for season 7 of Charlie Brooker’s dystopian-flavoured sci-fi Black Mirror. More recently, HBO’s Task hit the spot with a blue-collar crime series that wasn’t afraid to get down and dirty. Watercooler viewing is everywhere at the moment, and that’s not going to change anytime soon, with Stranger Things coming to an end and about a zillion other things still come. Here’s everything you need to see... so far.  Best TV and streaming shows at a glance: 📍 The Pitt (Emmy Best Drama winner) – watch on HBO Max in the US📍 Adolescence (Best Limited Series winner) –...

Sure, Christmastime starts the second the clock strikes midnight on November 31 and the garland and candy canes seemingly materialise from thin air on front lawns and in department store windows. But it’s not really the most wonderful time of the year until you grab a cup of hot cocoa, pull up your favourite blanket and throw a cherished Christmas classic on the TV. That’s especially true if you belong to the sandbox demographic. Think back to your own childhood, and chances are some of your fondest memories tied to the season are connected to that one special movie you only watch in December. And if you now have kids of your own, it’s time to get their own traditions started. Here are 23 soul-warming animated Christmas movies sure to capture their imagination. Recommended: 🎅 The 50 best Christmas movies of all-time🎄 🐭 The best Disney Christmas movies to stream for the holidays

  You’d think it would be easy to throw together a list of Disney’s greatest Christmas movies. After all, this is the company that built an empire on magic, mirth and childhood dreams. Surely its vaults must be positively bursting with yuletide cheer. But think about it: how many House of Mouse classics can you actually name? Sure, scroll through Disney+ and you’ll find heavy-hitters like Home Alone and Jingle All the Way, but those movies were acquired from other companies and stuffed under the extremely wide Disney umbrella. As for actual Disney-branded Christmas gems, you’ve got to dig fairly far ‘neath the proverbial tree. You’re in luck, though. ‘Tis the season for giving, so we’ve gone through the studio’s expansive catalogue and excavated the movies most likely to make your heart swell with cheer. Some are familiar; others are truly hidden chestnuts. All of them are guaranteed to get you in the Christmas spirit. Recommended: 🎅 The 50 best Christmas movies of all-time🎄 The best kids Christmas movies to watch this year✍ The best animated Christmas movies for the whole family🏰 The best Christmas movies on Disney+🐭 The 50 best Disney movies for family night

There are two types of people in this world: those who feel the temperature drop and retreat indoors with a blanket and a hot chocolate, and those who feel their pulses quicken. If you’re ready for a blast of Arctic air to your cheeks, hungry for the sound of skis on snow and would rather hike on a frozen lake thigh deep in snow than curl up with cosy crime, this one’s for you. We’ve rounded up the best of this winter’s trips for you, whatever your budget and whatever you like – as long as what you like is the cold. The best winter destinations at a glance: 🇳🇴 Best for igloos and cosy cabins: Norway 🏙️ Best for a winter city break: Bergen 🐻 Best for wilderness experiences: Canada ❄️ Best for snowy landscapes: Lapland ⭐ Editor’s pick: Japan RECOMMENDED:🏘️ The world’s coolest neighbourhoods in 2025 Laura Hall is a travel writer based in Copenhagen. At Time Out, all of our travel guides are written by local writers who know their cities inside out. For more about how we curate, see our editorial guidelines. This guide includes affiliate links, which have no influence on our editorial content. For more information, see our affiliate guidelines. 

If you really want to experience local life at its most authentic when exploring a new city, the best thing you can do is take to the streets. And no, not that one major thoroughfare with the samey high street megastores and generic coffee shops. We’re talking about the neighbourhood backstreets and lively avenues that locals love; the places packed with independent shops and creative people, where a brand-new hi-fi listening bar will share the space with an old-school grocer or a centuries-old pub.  This year, to create our annual ranking of the world’s coolest streets, we asked our global network of local editors and experts to nominate the street that epitomises the very best of their city. Time Out’s global travel team then narrowed down the list and ranked each street against criteria including food, drink, culture, fun and community spirit.  From Saturday samba sessions in Rio de Janeiro to a shapeshifting shopping street in Osaka, every avenue, alleyway and side street on this year’s ranking is unique to its hometown. Walking their length is like taking a stroll through the city in miniature, getting a taste of what makes life there brilliant – from food and culture to shopping and nightlife.  Did your favourite street make the list? Read on to find out. RECOMMENDED: 🏘️ The world’s coolest neighbourhoods in 2025🌆 The world’s best cities in 2025 Stay in the loop: sign up to our free Time Out Travel newsletter for the latest travel news and the best stuff...

Updated November 2025: From summer blockbusters to festival sleepers, these are the movies our critics think define 2025 so far. Expect prestige dramas, horror gems, wild indies and some surprise streaming hits - all watched and ranked by Time Out’s film team. Quick Picks: 2025’s best films by genre: 😂 Best comedy: The Naked Gun 😱 Best horror movie: Weapons 🥋 Best action movie: One Battle After Another🎭 Best drama: Nickel Boys🪆 Best family film: Flow September brought Splitsville, a whip-smart indie screwball about two couples testing open marriages, The Lost Bus, Paul Greengrass’s tense wildfire epic starring an on-form Matthew McConaughey, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another. With three quarters of the year gone, a few trends are starting to emerge. Superhero movies aren’t dead, but they’re no longer the guaranteed juggernauts they once were. Family films are booming. Gen Z is generating its own IP. Audiences still crave horror. And China’s home-grown hits are driving the global box office without Hollywood’s help. After years of post-pandemic hand-wringing, the film industry looks to be in better health than anyone expected. Sure, awards season could still change everything, but so far 2025 has given us plenty to celebrate – from genre-smashing auteur vehicles like Sinners and Weapons, to daring experiments such as The Nickel Boys, Flow and Better Man, and welcome returns from directors like Steven Soderbergh and Danny Boyle. In short, it’s been...

Murder mysteries are back. The question is, how were they ever allowed to leave? They’ve been part of cinema stretching back to the 1930s. Beyond mere tradition, few genres are able to engage your mind and pull you through the screen in quite the same way. It’s all about immersion: it’s simply human nature to want to solve a puzzle. And no matter how charismatic the sleuth up on the screen is, we always see them as a proxy for ourselves – and we always try to one-up them by figuring things out before they do.   And yet, somehow, the classic whodunnit had, until recently, felt long out of fashion. Like we said, though, over the last few years, murder mysteries have made a comeback, owing in large part to Rian Johnson’s Knives Out and its sequels, Glass Onion and Wake Up Dead Man. That led to remakes of Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile to streaming series like Poker Face to Only Murders in the Building. So we felt it was time to round up the genre’s classics, along with its hidden gems. Here are 41 of the best. Contributors: Phil de Semlyen, Matthew Singer, Annette Richardson, Ashanti Omkar Recommended:🕵️ The 100 best thriller films of all time🔪 The best true crime documentaries on Netflix in the US🔥 The 100 greatest films ever made

As much as Christmas trees, turkey and a mildly overworked Santa have become staples of the festive season, so has the music that soundtracks this cheer-soaked time of year. Christmas songs don’t just endure – many end up becoming the crown jewels of an artist’s entire career. From golden oldies by Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Bing Crosby, to ‘80s icons like Wham! and The Pogues, to modern favourites from Ariana Grande and Leona Lewis, these tunes have embedded themselves into our seasonal rituals. What is the best-selling Christmas song of all time? That honour still belongs to Bing Crosby’s 1942 classic ‘White Christmas’. With over 50 million sales, it’s not only the biggest Christmas record in history – it’s the best-selling song of all time, full stop. Guinness World Records first crowned it back in 1955, and it’s held onto the title ever since. What is the most-streamed Christmas song of all time? Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ may trail Crosby in pure sales (a mere 16 million), but streaming has turned it into a seasonal juggernaut. It finally hit No.1 in both the UK and US decades after its release and became the first Christmas song to pass 2 billion Spotify streams. Hot on its heels: Wham!’s ‘Last Christmas’ (1.83 billion) and Brenda Lee’s ‘Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree’ (1.27 billion). Are there any new Christmas songs for 2025? The past decade has delivered plenty of modern holiday staples, from Ariana Grande to Sabrina Carpenter to Cher....

For a holiday that’s all about family, football and eating yourself into a coma, Thanksgiving gets short shrift. Once the pumpkins hit the bins and the calendar flips over to November, thoughts turn not to turkey and decorative gourds but Mariah Carey and peppermint-scented candles. Thanksgiving is effectively the speed bump on the road to Christmas. So it is no surprise that Thanksgiving movies are hard to come by.  But that doesn’t mean there aren’t a few Turkey Day classics out there worthy of annual viewings – movies that, like the Christmas flicks we all know and love, say something about what the holiday represents, at least in the contemporary, slightly ahistorical sense.  What makes a great Thanksgiving movie? As noted, Thanksgiving is predominantly a holiday about family togetherness – and the difficulties of being together as a family. Most great Thanksgiving movies reflect that dynamic, in one way or another. But it’s also important not to wallow in anxiety, no matter how relatable it might be. In fact, many of the best Thanksgiving movies qualify as dark comedies rather than painful trauma-dumps.  What are some great Thanksgiving movies? All that said, the definitive Thanksgiving movie is a screwball road movie that concludes that family is always worth going through hell for. Mixed in are awkwardly tense dramedies, all-star concert films, an underdog sports classic and at least one movie where someone gets bludgeoned to death with a meat tenderiser. All of...