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It’s a worn-out joke at this point: you settle in to watch a movie on Netflix, and end up spending so much time trying to decide what to watch you give up and just look at TikTok or something until passing out on the couch. Hey, it’s funny because it’s true. But it doesn’t have to be.
Even as its status as the vanguard of the streaming revolution has taken a hit in recent years, the numbers show that Netflix is still king of the streamers, and boasts enough must-see movies that it’d take a busy person years to get through them all. To help you avoid the endless scroll, we’ve assembled this list sorting the great from the gunk. Whether you’re in the mood for a romcom, a historical epic, a thought-provoking doc or Jacob Elordi as an emo Frankenstein’s monster, you’re bound to find something that’ll entertain you tonight.
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The horror business is booming right now. Over the last few years, it’s become one of the movie industry’s most bankable genres, financially and creatively. Ryan Coogler has already made Oscar-nomination history with a vampire flick of all things, while the combination of Barbarian and Weapons has made director Zach Cregger one of Hollywood’s most exciting new voices – and that’s to say nothing of the huge box-office success of franchise entries like The Conjuring: Last Rites, Final Destination Bloodlines and Five Nights at Freddy’s 2.Only a few months into 2026, and the year in horror is already off to another good start, between 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, entertaining killer monkey ripper Primate and Sam Raimi’s return-to-form, Send Help. Nothing on the docket for the rest of the year immediately screams ‘blockbuster,’ but that’s the great thing about horror: like a bump in the night, the hits often come from unexpected places. Here’s what has stood out like a bloody knife so far.
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Green space is as integral to the ebb and flow of city life as good transport and a welcoming culture – even the most urban of urbanites need to touch grass once in a while, after all.
That’s why, when Time Out conducts its annual survey – this year collecting data from a staggering 24,000 city-dwellers – we don’t just ask about the best places for eating, dancing, dating and exploring, we get the lowdown on how accessible nature is, too.
All of that data is combined to create Time Out’s Best Cities with Intrepid Travel, our definitive ranking of the best cities on the planet to live in and to explore in 2026. And while Melbourne was crowned the overall best city this year, a quiet UK city took the crown as the world’s greenest, according to locals.
That’s right – the lush, densely park-populated city of Bath received the highest score for green spaces and nature in our 2025-26 survey. Chicago in the US followed closely behind, and third place was copped by the effortlessly cool Canadian city of Montreal.
To rank the world’s greenest cities, we asked thousands of locals across 150 hubs one question: how would you rate the green spaces and access to nature in your city? We then collated the places where the highest percentage of respondents answered ‘good’ or ‘amazing’, including only the highest-scoring city for each country to ensure the list reflects nature-packed cities globally.
Fancy a gander? Check out the world’s best cities for green space and nature below,...
With the return of The Night Manager, Industry and Hulu’s A Thousand Blows, the home viewing year has kicked off in head-spinning style. And with HBO’s Game of Thrones spin-off A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and Netflix’s How to Get To Heaven From Belfast, the latest from the creator of Derry Girls, the array of small-screen offerings are landing at dizzying speeds well into the spring. We have stopped at nothing – not sleep, not family responsibilities – to watch all of it and curate this list of the best shows to give your limited spare time over to. You don’t have forever to spend on the sofa so make it count with something from our list of the best of the year so far.
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America is in the throes of true-crime addiction, and Netflix deserves a good share of the credit (or blame). Starting with Making a Murderer, the streamer has made documentaries chronicling murders, vanishings and other mysterious happenings one of its main tentpoles, and in turn has helped move true crime from pop culture’s trashy margins to the centre of the entertainment conversation.
Is that a good thing – that we’ve turned sordid, often gruesome tragedies into gristle for the content machine? Really, that’s a discussion for another time. Because if you’re already hooked, all you really want to know is what you should watch next. Netflix is overflowing with true-crime docs, but in the rush to capitalise on the craze, not all of those on offer are worth even the most obsessed fan’s time. The following, however, all deserve a binge.
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In cinematic terms, Easter is something of a forgotten holiday. The day doesn’t really have a quintessential movie dedicated to it, unless you count, say, The Passion of the Christ - and if you’re looking for something to watch with the family that won’t traumatise the youngest members, it can be like searching for an egg in the Amazon.
Don’t worry, though: we’ve done the scouring for you. We’ve arranged a basketful of all-ages delights to entertain the entire flock, including animated flicks starring mischievous rabbits and the Peanuts gang, a classic Technicolor musical to a romcom about Beatrix Potter.
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Family holidays can be wonderful occasions of bonding and delight, the memory-making highlight of any year. They can also be expensive let-downs in which everyone is simultaneously bored, tired and grouchy. The key to making a smash is picking your destination and trip according to the precise needs of your own clan, whether you’re dealing with travel-averse toddlers, kinetic kids who won’t stop moving, screen-obsessed tweens or teenagers who want to be as far away from you as possible.
But that can feel like an overwhelming task, given that the internet has opened up every option in the world to us. To help make things simpler, we’ve taken 14 global destinations and zeroed in on some tried-and-tested family breaks that we know will work well. We hope they give you some inspiration and ideas. Happy travels!
The best family holidays at a glance:
🏂 Best for activities: Austria, France
🏖️ Best for beaches: Maldives, Saint Lucia
😋 Best for all-inclusive stays: Gran Canaria, Turkey
🐘 Best for wildlife: Botswana, Borneo
🍜 Best for eating out: Italy, Japan
🍴 Best for self-catering villas: Greece, Croatia
Marcus Webb is Time Out’s former global editor-in-chief and has written about family travel for various publications. 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 and check out our latest travel guides written by local experts.
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And we’re off. In most years, it takes a few months to assemble a list of the best movies of the year so far where the bar for quality isn’t lowered into the Earth’s core. The first quarter of the release calendar is typically where studios toss their tax writeoffs, but to this point, 2026 has outstripped expectations. In how many other years have we gotten a killer horror sequel like 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, a sharp, gross Sam Raimi return-to-form, a Gus Van Sant thriller and one of the best actor-to-director transitions in recent memory, all before April? And that’s to mention some of the smaller gems that have already popped up. As usual, this post will be updated throughout the year as highlights arrive – and there is bound to be a lot of them, between Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, and Toy Story 5 all arriving in the first half of 2026 alone. As you’ll see below, though, we’re already off to a good start. May we say that movies are… so back?
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Updated for 2026: Weapons, director Zach Cregger’s story of children gone missing in suburbia, proved him as the next great, original voice in horror. If it wasn’t obvious before, after Amy Madigan’s Oscar win for her portrayal of the unforgettable Aunt Gladys, we knew we had a new classic on our hands.
Everyone is scared of something. It might be something specific, like spiders or heights or clowns, or something less tangible, like death or failure. But deep down, even the most posturing tough guy harbours deep-seated fears. Perhaps that explains why horror has grown into one of the most popular of all film genres. Even if a movie doesn’t necessarily touch on the things that personally scare us the most, allowing ourselves to be scared at all helps us confront and ease the anxieties and fears that keep us paralysed.
Of course, horror hasn’t always been a moneymaker. Not long ago, it was mainly a niche interest, ignored by mass audiences and shrugged off by critics. The recent artistic and commercial success of diverse films from Get Out to Longlegs to Sinners to Weapons to Final Destination Bloodlines have brought retroactive respect to a genre once synonymous with schlock. So if you’ve spent too much of your film fandom dismissing horror, consider this your guide to everything you’ve missed. Here are the 100 greatest horror movies ever made.
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Let the normies do their October horror marathons: for true fright fans, every season is spooky season, and anytime is the right time for a horror movie. Netflix has enough scary movies to fill your entire calendar. Unfortunately, there’s a difference between ‘horror’ and actually being horrifying, and not all of the streamer’s offerings are guaranteed to scare your pants off.
If you don’t want to waste a night yawning when you should be screaming, we’ve pulled together this list of the best horror movies on Netflix. It’s a chilling mix of old reliables and modern classics, bloody blockbusters and indie shock-a-thons. All of them are sure to give you nightmares.
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