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Sarah Snook, Kieran Culkin and Jeremy Strong in Succession.Courtesy of David M. Russell for HBO. GQ polled several writers about some of the HBO series’ most lingering questions and debates. By Frazier Tharpe May 29, 2023 Succession is finally over. Just when it seemed like the previous HBO series about a bunch of family members

Jeremy Strong in the series finale of Succession.Courtesy of Macall Polay for HBO. In an appropriately bleak ending, the No. 1 boy suffers the most.  By Paul Thompson May 29, 2023 Toward the end of the penultimate episode of Succession, “Church and State,”  Kendall says to Hugo, the public relations lapdog who moments later will pledge

Bill Hader in the Barry finale.Photograph: HBO It just comes at the ultimate price.  By Gabriella Paiella May 28, 2023 Spoilers for Barry ahead.  Barry Berkman has always sought redemption. In the first season of Barry, the former marine-turned-hitman found it in his theater class. When it became clear that pivoting from assassin to actor wasn’t going to

Steve Carell, Aristou Meehan and Liev Schreiber in Asteroid City.Courtesy of Focus Features via Everett Collection The auteur’s latest, which premiered at Cannes Film Festival last week, combines the best elements of his early and latter day work into something magical–and unexpected. By Ariel LeBeau May 28, 2023 Four decades into his career, Wes Anderson

Photographs: Getty Images; Collage: Gabe Conte She knows everything about Taylor Swift. He knows the deal with a certain kind of Brooklyn podcaster. Now they’re sharing an exhilarating, once-in-a-lifetime moment of pop-culture crossover. By Kate Lindsay May 27, 2023 My boyfriend can binge dark and meandering movies about the opioid crisis, but fell asleep the

The sexual chemistry between Lizzy Caplan and Joshua Jackson sizzles in the Fatal Attraction re-imagining.Courtesy of Monty Brinton for Paramount+ Not everything in the Joshua Jackson/Lizzy Caplan reimagining—which airs its series finale this weekend—works, but true to its source material, it makes sex scenes hot again. By Kerensa Cadenas May 27, 2023 Hollywood has long

Kieran Culkin in Succession.Courtesy of Macall Polay for HBO. Armstrong originally envisioned his HBO series as a much more literal feature film about the Murdoch family. Does that script spoil Succession’s ending? By Grant Rindner May 25, 2023 The fourth season of Jesse Armstrong’s acclaimed HBO family drama Succession has consistently subverted audience expectations. The family

The ‘first couple’ of Spanish-language music took the GQ Couples Quiz, dishing on their first kiss, their go-to karaoke songs, and his proposal snafu. By Vince Mancini May 25, 2023 Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro might just be the preeminent couple in Spanish-language music. The pair dated covertly for more than a year, before becoming “instagram official”

Photographs: Everett Collection; Collage: Gabe Conte Dom Toretto and the gang have gone from DVD thieves to CIA-backed astronauts over the course of the last 22 years. Here we crunch the numbers to determine the most “out there” movies in the series. By William Goodman May 24, 2023 The Fast & Furious franchise sped past reality

Photographs: Everett Collection, Getty Images; Collage: Gabe Conte An honest, strictly basketball-based scouting report on the White Men Can’t Jump remake. Would Sinqua Walls and Jack Harlow stand a chance against Wesley and Woody? By Abe Beame May 24, 2023 When word spread that the beloved 1992 Ron Shelton streetball and race relations classic White Men

Brenden Jefferson, Shia LaBeouf, Byron Cotton, Jake M. Smith, Miguel Castro, Khleo Thomas and Max Kasch in Holes.Courtesy of Tony Barbera for Buena Vista Pictures via Everett Collection The cast and crew of the film that made Shia LaBeouf a star reflect on the making of the irresistible jam “Dig It.”  By Jake Kring-Schreifels May

Keanu Reeves, seen here in John Wick: Chapter 4, was reportedly almost a part of Fast X.Courtesy of Lionsgate via Everett Collection Fast X addition Alan Ritchson confirms that his role was originally meant for the John Wick superstar. By Grant Rindner May 23, 2023 Since adding The Rock to “the family” in Fast Five, Fast &

Abel The Weeknd Tesfaye and Lily-Rose Depp premiered their HBO series The Idol at the 76th annual Cannes film festival at Palais des Festivals on May 23, 2023 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)Courtesy of Stephane Cardinale via Corbis of Getty Images The HBO series’ first two episodes debuted

At 69, Rob Grant is releasing his debut album, Lost at Sea. He’s also been an ad man, domain developer, father to international sensation Lana Del Rey—and a huge boat enthusiast. So we spent an afternoon cruising up the Hudson with him and his daughter.  By Gabriella Paiella Photography by Caroline Tompkins May 23, 2023 GQ

 Martin Scorsese’s new film Killers of the Flower Moon debuted at the 76th Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France on May 21, 2023.Courtesy of Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The 80-year-old director has been getting existential about having enough time to match his ambitions. By Grant Rindner May 22, 2023

Dave Matthews at The Horde Festival in California, 1996.Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images Essayist and screenwriter Samantha Irby is one of the biggest DMB fans on Earth—so much so that she devoted a whole section to Dave in her hilarious new essay collection, Quietly Hostile. By Alex Pappademas May 22, 2023 Samantha Irby is one of the funniest

Harrison Ford’s swan song Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is getting mixed to negative reviews out of Cannes.Courtesy of Walt Disney Co. via Everett Collection …which is to say, reactions to the new Indy sequel have been tepid. By Grant Rindner May 20, 2023 Given the mediocre response to the previous Indiana Jones

Photographs: Getty Images, Vincent Mancini; Collage: Gabe Conte As season 10 of Vanderpump Rules fades into history, and with Pump, the other restaurant in the star of the show’s portfolio, set to close, GQ seeks to answer a question no one has asked: “But how is the food?” By Vince Mancini May 20, 2023 Vanderpump Rules is—if

Photographs: HBO; Collage: Gabe Conte Reddit users are posting sightings of Tom Wambsgans. People on Twitter are declaring that men should not judge Shiv Roy’s “actions.” How the babygirl-ification of the “flop nepotism” family has morphed into a darker collective fantasy. By Kate Lindsay May 19, 2023 On Sunday, May 14th, a Reddit user dropped a