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Whether you need to get away from it all, stretch your legs a bit, or remind yourself of how tiny and insignificant you are in the immensity of Mother Nature, there’s only one thing for it: it‘s time to take a hike. Be it a month-long spiritual pilgrimage, a coastal amble or a mountain scramble, there are magnificent trails the world over – and we’ve rounded up some of the very best on the planet to help you plan your next great hike. From red rock canyons in the American Southwest to the bonnie lochs of the West Highland Way, there’s a hike, trek or trail on this list that’s calling your name. With each hike tried and tested by our editors, we’ve got all the info on where to go, when to go and how long to set aside, plus tips and tricks and the best sights to look for along the way. All you need to do is pack your bags. These are the world’s greatest hikes, according to Time Out. Updated April 2025: We’ve added four new trails to this list to help you plan for summer hikes – and moved a certain Spanish pilgrimage to the top spot. RECOMMENDED:🌲 The best national parks in the world ⛰️ The best destinations for solo female travellers🌊 The most spectacular places to swim in the world🏝️ The best beaches in the world🚂 The best train journeys around the world

Dreaming of turquoise waters and pristine beaches? The Turks and Caicos Islands offer a slice of Caribbean paradise perfect for a rejuvenating escape. Beyond lounging on the beach with a good book, there's plenty to do for adventure seekers. Getting there is made easy with British Airways. You can find a travel class to suit every taste and budget, with a friendly and accommodating crew offering the best of British service and a generous baggage allowance on board, allowing you to pack for all your activities in Turks and Caicos. Once you arrive, here are five must-do experiences:

Fifty years ago this week the fall of Saigon brought the Vietnam War to an end. We all know it best from the movies. And while it’s usually the winners who get to tell the story of a war, Hollywood’s primacy gives Vietnam’s filmography an American flavour – from valorising propaganda flick like The Green Berets to war-is-hell slaughterfests like Hamburger Hill, via a host of homecoming dramas like The Deer Hunter and Born on the Fourth of July. The Vietnamese have their own equivalents, though, and films like The Girl From Hanoi capture the country’s harrowing experiences. But which films really get the conflict? We asked military historian Professor Geoffrey Wawro, author of acclaimed account The Vietnam War, to rank the most accurate depictions of the conflict. ‘The canon of Vietnam films gives us a lot of different views on the conflict,’ he tells us. So is the Vietnam war movie a thing of the past? ‘Well, no one expected Spike Lee to take up the story [with 2020’s Da 5 Bloods],’ he adds, ‘but he saw an interesting angle to pursue and made a great movie. Vietnam is a useful device for talking about the arrogance and blindness of power.’ Recommended:  📽️ The 50 best war movies ever made🪖 The 50 best World War II movies🎖️ World War I films ranked by historical accuracy

Great movies matter. Movies have the capacity to sharpen our understanding of the world. They take us places we’d otherwise never go, and introduce us to people we’d otherwise never meet. Or they reflect our own lives back at us, and help us understand ourselves a little better. They simply allow us to place reality on pause for a few hours, which, in this day and age, should not be discounted. Thankfully, there are signs that movies still do matter, even for a generation that’s grown up watching them mostly through the television, like Letterboxd, or the growing popularity of repertory cinemas. And that is ultimately what compels us to list the greatest films of all-time. It’s not to assert our own canon, or spark quibbles about snubs and arbitrary rankings. It’s because new film fans are still being born every day, and need a place to start. So consider this a road map. Jump to list: 100-91 |  90-81 | 80-71 | 70-61 | 60-51 | 50-41 | 40-31 | 30-21 | 20-11 | 10-1 How we chose our 100 best movies of all time Admittedly, the process is not an exact science. Mostly, it involves a bunch of arguing, whittling and deal-making amongst Time Out’s most movie-obsessed writers, and then voila: a top 100 everyone is kinda sorta happy about! In terms of why we chose what we chose, that’s just as messy and multivarious. Sometimes, it’s for historical achievements, either technically or thematically. Other times, it’s simple obviousness: are you really not going to have The Godfather and...

Outside of a few box-office smashes, 2024 was a relatively quiet year for movies, full of fascinating breakouts and leftfield successes, but few major events. But 2025 is shaping up a bit differently. While it’s still hard to spot another #Barbenheimer on the horizon, or even a Deadpool and Wolverine, the calendar is loaded with the return of monolithic franchises like Avatar, Mission: Impossible and Jurassic World and a few monolithic auteurs, including Paul Thomas Anderson, Bong Joon-ho, Lynne Ramsay, Spike Lee and Steven Soderbergh. Shoot, we might even get a Terrence Malick movie this year. Of course, the most exciting thing going into every year are the films you never see coming. Will we get another The Substance or Nickel Boys? Who knows? But that’s why we keep watching – and you can follow along with our ever-growing list of the best movies of the year below. RECOMMENDED: 📺 The best TV and streaming shows of 2025 (so far)🔥 The must-see films for 2025 you can't miss🎥 The 101 greatest films ever made

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 and The Last of Us all look like building on incredibly satisfying first runs with equally masterful second runs (even more masterful, in Severance’s case). 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. Watercooler viewing is everywhere at the moment,  and that’s not going to change anytime soon. Netflix has announced the finale of Squid Game this summer, along with the end of Stranger Things, a second run of Tim Burton’s Wednesday and about a zillion other things, while HBO is offering up a second season for Nathan Fielder’s genius/awkward comedy docuseries The Rehearsal. Here’s everything you need to see... so far.  RECOMMENDED: 🎥 The best movies of 2025 (so far)🔥 The best TV and streaming shows to watch in 2025📺 The 100 greatest ever TV shows you need to binge

It’s the train tracks that stay with you.  I’m standing on the infamous so-called ramp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. A slightly elevated strip, it’s where more than a million victims of the Holocaust were unloaded from cattle carriages. SS guards and medical orderlies met 437,000 Hungarian Jews alone between May and July 1944, deciding who would live – for a time at least – and who went straight to the gas chambers.  There are several names with black crosses next to them on my family tree. Hungarian Jews. Did they once stand where I am now?  My aunt, cousin and I have come by coach from the pretty medieval city of Krakow, an hour or so away through unremarkable Polish countryside. We booked online (€30-50) – the official Auschwitz website will point you in the right direction – and a tour guide accompanies us for our three or four hours here, sharing facts and insights via individual headsets. It makes the visit a solitary business, despite the many other groups that crisscross around us. Which feels about right – you rarely feel like chatting.   Photograph: PhotoFra / Shutterstock As a film journalist, everything has a habit of coming back to movies for me. Shoah, French documentarian Claude Lanzmann’s great, nine-hour-plus opus of the Holocaust, is a big one. Schindler’s List, of course, which was partly filmed on the other side of Birkenau’s infamous Gates of Death (you can’t shoot feature films inside the camp these days).  And more than one friend has suggested that...

The horror movie kicked off with Robert Eggers’ vampire smash hit Nosferatu and the fanged fraternity are back in a big way in April with Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, a Southern gothic with Michael B Jordan. David F Sandberg’s (Lights Out) nocturnal nightmare Until Dawn, meanwhile, will boast as-yet unrevealed terrors as a group of friends attempt to survive a night in the woods. Don’t rule out the odd vamp in there, too. And that’s just the start for a horror resurgence: 28 Years Later, M3GAN 2.0, The Conjuring: Last Rites, SAW XI, The Black Phone 2.0 and a new Insidious movie are all adding new shocks to smash-hit franchises. Talk To Me pair Danny and Michael Philippou return with Bring Her Back and the Jordan Peele-produced Him hits in September. Oh, and Final Destination Bloodlines has delivered the second most watched horror trailer of all time. This list will be updated as the frights arrive, so keep checking back to see what’s worth shelling out for.RECOMMENDED: 🎃 The 100 best horror films ever made😱 The scariest movies based on a true story 🔥 The best horror films of 2024

Like queer culture itself, queer cinema is not a monolith. For a long time, though, that’s certainly how it felt. In the past, if gay lives and issues were ever portrayed at all on screen, it was typically from the perspective of white, cisgendered men. But as more opportunities have opened up for queer performers and filmmakers to tell their own stories, the scope of the LGBTQ+ experiences that have made their way onto the screen has gradually widened to more frequently include the trans community and queer people of colour. It’s still not perfect, of course. In Hollywood, as in society at large, there are many barriers left to breach and ceilings to shatter. But those recent strides deserve to be celebrated – as do the bold films made long before the mainstream was willing to accept them. To that end, we enlisted some LGBTQ+ cultural pioneers, as well as Time Out writers to assist in assembling a list of the greatest gay films ever made. Written by Cath Clarke, Dave Calhoun, Stephen A Russell, Tom Huddleston, Alim Kheraj, Guy Lodge, Ben Walters and Matthew Singer. RECOMMENDED: 🔥 The 100 best movies of all-time🎥 The 65 best documentaries of all-time😍 The 100 best romantic films of all-time🤣 The 100 best comedies of all-time

From the Los Angeles wildfires enhanced by a drier-than-usual environment and the flooding in Lanzarote intensified by unusually heavy rainfall, to the Pacific Islands bracing themselves to one day be underwater, our changing climate is affecting lives and ecosystems the world over. 2024 was Earth’s hottest year on record since records began in 1880. Meanwhile, the latest science-based report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recommends that transforming everyday habits to reduce greenhouse gas emissions should be a priority if we are to tackle the harmful impacts of the changing climate successfully.  We can’t ignore that travelling comes with an environmental and, often, cultural cost – but by choosing to travel more responsibly and sustainably, you can help to reduce the negative impacts of tourism. As individual travellers, swapping flights for trains, when possible, is the best place to start. Choosing destinations that have already adopted locally beneficial initiatives, such as pledging to look after nearby natural habitats and investing in the surrounding communities, is also important. An easy way to be a more considerate tourist is by booking with operators that have a stringent sustainability policy, which ensures that your money goes towards the preservation of environment and culture.  Here are seven destinations that have already signed up to a more considerate way of life and deserve our support. RECOMMENDED: 🥾 13 ways to be a better...