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With the return of popular animes like Jujutsu Kaisen and Frieren in January, this year in anime kicked off pretty early with heroic characters, cutting-edge animation, and rave reviews from dedicated fanbases. But if the spring anime calendar offers any hints for what is to come, anime fans (or otakus and weebs, as the vernacular goes) are eating good in 2026. New titles like Witch Hat Atelier and Daemons of the Shadow Realm have already won over audiences with their early episodes, while cult favourites like Hell’s Paradise and Dorohedoro are returning to our screens after an overlong hiatus. There’s a lot to catch up on. So, here’s how to get started with the best anime of the year so far.  📺 The best TV and streaming shows of 2026 (so far)🇯🇵 The best anime movies of all time, ranked🔥 The best movies of 2026 (so far)

If you were lucky enough to grow up pre-Y2K, you would have likely known little about Korea beyond the conflict in the back pages of your school history book. But that all changed when, in the aftermath of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the country doubled down on funding exportable pop culture in an attempt to rebrand the country on the world stage. The gambit, part designed to attract big business and tourism, was a wild success – and now we have K-Pop, K-dramas and kimchi pouring out of our ears. One of the biggest proponents of the ‘hallyu’ wave, though, has always been filmmaking – with Hollywood-style action blockbuster Shiri; brutal revenge thriller Oldboy; and Academy Awards triumph Parasite among the most resounding victories of a national cinema revitalised from the brink of anonymity. We simply can’t get enough of it today. And for good reason: South Korea is a goldmine of original ideas and storytelling talents who show no signs of taking their feet off the gas as the industry thrives. So why not huff on the metaphorical fumes? Our list of the best Korean movies of all time billows below.Recommended:🇫🇷 The 100 best French movies of all-time🇯🇵 The 50 best Japanese movies of all-time🇭🇰 The 100 best Hong Kong movies of all-time🇮🇹 The best Italian movies of all time: from Bicycle Thieves to The Great Beauty

Look, long movies are great. Luxuriating in a slow-moving epic that spans generations? It’s the stuff cinephiles live for. But sometimes, life intervenes, and plonking down on the couch for two-plus hours and drifting off into another world isn’t an option. In the situations where time is tight, or you just don’t have the brain capacity or attention span for anything longer, you might simply be in the market for a quick-hit dose of entertainment before moving on with your life. If that’s the case, these 25 sub-90-minute gems are exactly what you’re looking for.  Recommended: 🆓 35 legitimately great movies you can watch for free on YouTube🔥 The best movies of 2026 (so far)📺 The best TV and streaming shows of 2026 (so far)

It’s not easy being a teen. The specifics change from generation to generation, but the struggle is universal: you’re perched between childhood and adulthood, trying to figure out the world and yourself, as your hormones rage and your peers are at their cruellest. So it’s no surprise that filmmakers continually return to their high-school years for inspiration – it’s at once the most dramatic and hilarious time in anyone’s life. Unsurprisingly, Netflix has a ton of movies exploring the trials, tribulations and emotional turbulence of adolescence. And it isn’t all awkward sex and overblown emotions – though there’s plenty of both, of course. On this list of the best teen movies currently streaming on Netflix, you’ll find good-natured romcoms, young-adult dramas, movies about superheroes, basketball, vampires and cheating on college entrance exams.  Recommended: 🧒 The 100 best teen movies of all-time🤣 The 100 best comedy movies👪 The best family movies on Netflix for all ages🤗 The best feelgood movies on Netflix

At this point, Wes Anderson needs no introduction, nor do many movie fans need to be convinced how to feel about his work. Either you find his delicate, immaculate world-building good enough to eat, or you react to his twee sensibilities with nausea. No matter where on the spectrum you fall, though, Anderson is one of the most distinctive filmmakers of his generation, if not all-time. We’ve ranked his movies from worst to best – and despite his detractors’ claims, his films are different enough to distinguish between.   Recommended: 🎬 The best Quentin Tarantino movies, ranked 🔥 The 100 best movies of all-time📽️ The best films of 2025 (so far)

Is it safe to say movies are back? Sure, there’s still plenty of anxiety around the film industry and its future. But cinematically speaking, 2026 has gotten off to, arguably, the most blazing hot start since the pre-pandemic glory days, both critically and at the box office.  Of course, for our purposes, we like to focus on the creative successes, and it’s rare for the first quarter of any year to produce so many achievements of various scopes and budgets. Any time you get both a Project Hail Mary and 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple – not to mention leftfield triumphs like The Testament of Ann Lee, Sirât and Little Amélie or the Character of Rain – all before the calendar’s halfway point, you know it’s a good time to be a film fan, especially when there are new spectacles from Christopher Nolan, Steven Spielberg, Marvel and the Dune franchise on the horizon.  But that’s later. Here’s the best of what we’ve seen so far.  📺 The best TV and streaming shows of 2026 (so far)📕 15 book-to-movie adaptations to get excited about in 2026🔥 The 40 best movies of 2025

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. Recommended: 📽️ The best movies of 2026 (so far)🔥 The best TV and streaming shows of 2025📺 The 100 greatest TV shows of all time

Updated for 2026: The year 2025 gave us two new great sports movies, about two entirely different sports: ping-pong in the feature-length panic attack of Marty Supreme and, well, F1 in F1: The Movie, a more straightforward car-racing drama that nevertheless features some of the most breathless race scenes ever put on film. For non-fans, sports might seem trivial – frivolous games played by millionaires who make more money than teachers and doctors. On the surface, those detractors aren’t entirely wrong. But if you look closer, sports are also a natural conduit for drama, for triumphant displays of the human spirit and, sometimes, for reminders that things don’t always turn out the way we want them.  Clearly, it’s no surprise why filmmakers often look to sports for inspiration. Sure, it’s a genre built on clichés. But the best sports movies are able to surprise us, either by turning the tropes inside-out or delivering them with such emotional authenticity, they punch audiences in the hearts regardless. On this list of the 50 greatest sports movies of all-time, you’ll find examples of both. Scotchgard your couch, because you’re going to be jumping on it a lot. RECOMMENDED:🤾 The best Olympics movies🏀 The best basketball movies🌊 The 15 most epic surf movies🔎 The best biopics of all-time, ranked

Updates for 2026: It's not surprise that the Ryan Gosling-starring megahit Project Hail Mary has been added to our space movie canon — it's both a major-league blockbuster and an extraordinary piece of entertainment.  Space may be the final frontier, but filmmakers have been dreaming of it ever since the medium was invented. Indeed, even after humans made it there, cinema’s obsession with the universe beyond our small rock hasn’t abated, nor has interest from the general public – see the recent Artemis II mission, a rare moment of collective awe in a time of constant anger and unrest.  It’s not hard to understand why. Its infinite vastness is essentially a blank canvas on which to ponder all sorts of big ideas, whether it’s mankind’s place in the void, the human desire for exploration or the simple fear of the ultimate unknown. That’s why the ‘space movie’ deserves to be considered its own genre. Yes, many science-fiction movies are set in space. But not all movies about space are necessarily science fiction. Here are our picks for the 30 best movies that travel to infinity… and in many cases, beyond. Recommended: 👽 The 100 best science fiction movies of all-time😬 The 100 best thriller films of all-time💣 The 101 best action movies ever made🦄 The 50 best fantasy movies of all-time 

War has long fascinated filmmakers, going back to the birth of cinema, but none have proven so endlessly enthralling as World War II. It’s understandable, given the remarkable scale of the destruction, the atrocities involved and what it represented in the grand scheme of human history. So many movies have been made about the conflict, it almost stands apart from other war movies as a genre unto itself – and we’ll almost certainly see many more over the coming decades. It’s a daunting task, then, to choose the best World War II movies ever made. That’s why, along with polling our well-studied Time Out writers, we also called in an outside expert to come up with this definitive list: Quentin Tarantino, a man who knows a thing or two about making a great WWII film. Among the selections, you’ll find wide-scale epics, personal dramas, devastating documentaries, historical revisions and even a comedy or two. War, as we all know, is good for absolutely nothing – but at least we have these films to help make some sense of it. Written by Tom Huddleston, Adam Lee Davies, Paul Fairclough, Anna Smith, David Jenkins, Dan Jolin, Phil de Semlyen, Alim Kheraj & Matthew Singer Recommended: ⚔️ The 50 best war movies of all-time🎖️ The best World War I movies, ranked by historical accuracy🇺🇸 The 20 best Memorial Day movies