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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It’s been over a decade since Netflix dropped its first original series, the political thriller House of Cards, and effectively changed streaming forever. At the time, it seemed like a major gamble. Since then, many more streamers have come along with their own shows and momentarily seized the zeitgeist, but the conversation always seems to return to the Big Tudum, whether through culture-dominating smashes like Stranger Things, Wednesday and Squid Game, critically adored limited series such as Adolescence and Baby Reindeer or emerging YA phenomena like One Piece.
Of course, while Netflix has churned out some of the most talked-about shows of the past decade, it’s also produced just as many clunkers. That can make finding the programming most worth bingeing a bit challenging. But we’ve made it easy for you. Below, you’ll find our picks for the best Netflix original series available to stream. Sure, you probably already know that you need to catch up on Bridgerton or The Crown. But there’s enough in the streamer’s vast collection that there are always some hidden gems worth investing your time in.
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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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A red sandstone amphitheatre. An ancient woodland on the English coast. A teeny tiny island with a black sand beach. Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes – luckily, the world isn’t held to the same rigid beauty standards as humans are – and we’ve curated this list to celebrate that.
It goes without saying that Time Out’s ranking of the world’s most beautiful places is entirely subjective and by no means exhaustive, but what we can guarantee is real-life experience. Every single beach, lake, city and valley on this list has been visited and vetted by our globetrotting network of travel writers. In short, they’re all well worth making the journey to see for yourself (no social media fakery here).We update this list regularly, ensuring we’re including the big-hitters while considering the impact of overtourism and spotlighting lesser-known beauty spots. So here it is: Time Out’s guide to the most beautiful places on planet Earth. Happy travels!Updated March 2026: There are seven new additions to the list this year, including a terracotta-coloured Old Town in Italy, an opulent Renaissance-style library in New York and a compact mountain range in northern Spain.Grace Beard is Time Out’s travel editor, based in London. 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.
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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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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 Project Hail Mary, Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, 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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Is there anyone out there that doesn’t love Ryan Gosling? If so, that’s on them because the Canadian is currently one of the most amiable, ego-free superstars in the Hollywood firmament. Even right now, he’s probably out there goofing about with Elmo, winking at a The Notebook superfan on a red carpet or turning a shade of crimson while someone brandishes a Gosling tea towel at him in an interview. He may quail in the face of all this attention but he’s too damn likeable to let on. Leaving aside his semi-reluctant public persona and easy charm – honestly, we are – he’s also a don at piloting his career in all sorts of bold and interesting ways. Now in his mid-forties, that 20-year filmography is packed full of unexpected choices and performances. Taking in comedies, indie dramas, action flicks and at least one buddy cop masterpiece, he’s got a great eye for material and the range to make the most of it. Who else could play a neo-Nazi and Ken? His latest movie role is one of his best yet: teacher turned reluctant astronaut Ryland Grace in Lord and Miller sci-fi adventure epic Project Hail Mary. Here’s where it ranks on his filmography to date.
Right now, it feels like a great time to celebrate our cities. What cities do best is bring people together – everything we love about urban life, from the galleries and bars to the neighbourhood parks, exists thanks to the communities that make it all happen.
That’s why, every year, we raise a toast to the city with our definitive annual ranking, created on the back of a comprehensive survey of city-dwellers worldwide. Our survey asks not only what people love about their cities – the food scene and nightlife, the shops and museums, the parks and people – but also how it feels to live there. We asked you about happiness, affordability and quality of life, among a variety of other criteria. And, in order to dig deeper into the everyday lives of locals, this year we expanded our survey to cover aspects like love, romance and community feel.
Time Out’s Best Cities with Intrepid Travel spotlights the destinations that offer the best of both worlds: an endlessly exciting catalogue of reasons to visit, as well as all the good stuff that makes a place feel like home. The 50 cities that made the list this year did so thanks to the insights of more than 24,000 people across 150 cities worldwide. To determine the final Best Cities ranking for 2026, we combined their thousands of responses with the votes of more than 100 Time Out city experts. Then we tapped up our network of local writers to tell us exactly what makes their city worth a visit right now.
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Updates for 2026: One of the best movies of 2025, Pillion mixes tender emotions and kinky sex into a BDSM romcom that’s funny, hot and heartbreaking all at once.
In the past few decades, queer cinema has made major strides – not just in reaching mainstream audiences, but in redefining what ‘queer cinema’ actually looks like. In the past, if gay lives and issues were ever allowed to be addressed on screen at all, the viewpoint was often limited to that of white, cisgender men. But the LGBTQ+ experience is not a monolith, and recent years have seen the scope of queer film expand to include the voices of the trans community and people of colour. That’s not to mention the kind of stories being told, from the dom-com of Pillion to the atmospheric horror of I Saw the TV Glow to the romantic ghost story All Of Us Strangers.
Obviously, there are still many barriers left to breach, but the progress of the last half-century or so deserves to be celebrated. 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.
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For a long time, Irish movies played predominantly to Irish audiences. Before the 2000s, it was for a movie from the Emerald Isle to reach a global audience. It still is. But whenever one does make it off the island, it’s going to hit you hard. Think of the quietly poignant romantic musical Once, or Daniel Day-Lewis’s breakthrough in Jim Sheridan’s My Left Foot, or Martin McDonagh’s Oscar-nominated study of friendship in peril The Banshees of Inisherin.
Whether the genre, the best Irish movies breathe with a soul reflective of the country’s centuries of history and the idiosyncrasies of its people. There’s no reason to wait until St Patrick’s Day to watch these classics – but if you need an excuse to crack into these 20 selections, we can’t think of a better one.
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