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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Gwilym Mumford

The Guide #201: ​our readers’ 21st-​century ​pantheon​: the ​culture ​you ​loved (​that ​we ​missed)

Top- Doctor Who, Avengers: Endgame Bottom- This is England, Sabrina Carpenter
Your faves … (clockwise from top left) Doctor Who, Avengers: Endgame, Sabrina Carpenter, This is England. Composite: Getty, PR, Marvel Studios

Last week’s newsletter was a bumper edition, running through the culture that defined the century so far. It covered a wide swathe, from single-take experimental Russian cinema to Top Gun: Maverick, or immersive genre-melding theatre to the dopamine hit of Pokémon Go.

But of course, it didn’t cover everything. Far from it. So this week we’re turning things over to Guide readers, who have shared their own favourite culture of the past 25 years. It includes some big hitters absent from our list (how did we miss Doctor Who and Shane Meadows?!) as well as some choices that are completely unfamiliar – including a Czech gonzo documentary film that I really need to check out. Here are your picks for the 21st-century pantheon.

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