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The first reactions to Ezra Miller’s upcoming superhero film The Flash are highly effusive.Courtesy of Warner Bros via Everett Collection Some critics who saw the movie, which stars the embattled actor Ezra Miller, at CinemaCon last night are echoing James Gunn’s hyperbole about it. By Grant Rindner April 26, 2023 Ezra Miller has repeatedly been accused of bad

Perry Mason season 2 ends with the eponymous character (Matthew Rhsy) in a much better place spiritually.Courtesy of Merrick Morton for HBO. The HBO series, which wrapped its twisty second season last night, is one of the most underrated shows out. Will we get the third season we deserve? By Angel Diaz April 25, 2023

How did chef and former punk drummer Brooks Headley turn his all-vegetarian vision for a rock and roll diner into the season’s hottest new restaurant? By Brett Martin Photography by Jeremy Liebman April 26, 2023 GQ Hype: It’s the big story of right now. The mob has reached the vestibule. It’s 5 pm on a Thursday

John Mulaney performing his new comedy special Baby J—which ends with a comedic reading of his infamous 2020 GQ interview—at the Boston Symphony Hall.Courtesy of Marcus Russell Price for Netflix. GQ editor Frazier Tharpe on conducting the interview that inspired the grand finale of Mulaney’s new Netflix special, Baby J—and chopping it up with the

Zendaya and Timothee Chalamet tease Dune: Part Two during the studio presentation from Warner Bros Pictures at CinemaCon at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on April 25, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada.Courtesy of Valerie Macon via Getty Images. The Flash, Dune: Part 2 and Barbie were the early standouts from the first full day of the annual blockbuster

Photographs: Getty Images; Collage: Gabe Conte  Frontman Matt Berninger caught up with GQ about overcoming depression, collaborating with Taylor Swift, and his band’s new album. By Colin Groundwater April 25, 2023 For a year, Matt Berninger couldn’t write. A month became two months, two months became six, and the anxiety about not writing compounded so

Succession season 4, episode 5. Featuring saunas, molly, and Lukas Matsson mailing his own blood. By Gabriella Paiella April 23, 2023 Spoilers for Succession ahead. Wherever you go, there you are.  And wherever the Roys go—whether it be Hungary or Scotland, the English countryside or the Tuscan countryside—there they very much are. The destination episodes have

Alyssa Sutherland in Evil Dead Rise.Courtesy of Warner Bros via Everett Collection Evil Dead Rise is the latest film in a series stretching back four decades. Here’s how all the different sequels, spin-offs and tv-shows connect—or don’t—to each other. By Keith Phipps April 21, 2023 When director Sam Raimi, star Bruce Campbell, and producer Robert

Jeremy Strong and Sarah Snook in Succession season 4, which may be taking place over a very short time period.Courtesy of Macall B Polay for HBO. So far, each episode of season four has been one sequential day. April 21, 2023 The stakes are higher than ever in this, the fourth and final season of Succession (see:

Marcus Scribner shows a new side of himself in the thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline.Courtesy of Neon via Everett Collection The actor best known as the dopey eldest son on Black-ish takes on a new kind of role as an environmental terrorist in the arresting new indie thriller. By Kerensa Cadenas April 21, 2023 Marcus

Photograph: Alex Figs; Collage: Gabe Conte  The rising TikTok comedy star gained a million followers in one week—then signed with a blue-chip Hollywood talent agency. Now he’s just trying to recapture the joy he felt acting in school plays at age 10. By Florence O’Connor April 20, 2023 Jake Shane had a big month earlier

THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE, from left: Mario (voice: Chris Pratt), Luigi (voice: Charlie Day), 2023. © Universal Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection©Universal/Courtesy Everett Collection It’s-a the biggest video-game movie of all time. But if you’re wondering whether one needs to be a child (or an adult who has written Mario Kart fanfic) to enjoy this

Suit, $5,100, by Ferragamo. Shirt, $1,350, by Valentino. Sunglasses (throughout), $575, by Ahlem. The Houston rapper and Travis Scott protege released one of the best albums of the year so far—another step on his steady path to industry dominance. By Paul Thompson Photography by Charlotte Rutherford April 20, 2023 GQ Hype: It’s the big story of

“We created Reddit before ‘social media’ was a word,” the Reddit CEO says. “But we created it in response to the same idea, which is the media is just lying to us. It’s all fake.” By Robert Leedham April 19, 2023 For 17 years now, Reddit has been the social network with an anarchic streak

Photo-illustration by Sonya Olomskaya; photographs by Getty Images Montana lawmakers have voted to outlaw the app, and the federal government is toying with the same idea. But with Instagram and Twitter in steep decline, what will be left of social media if we lose TikTok?   By Kate Lindsay April 19, 2023 One Friday in spring

Photograph courtesy of Amazon The unwitting star of the hit Amazon Freevee reality show (and TikTok obsession) speaks: “The idea that it was fake was even crazier than what was happening.” By Kate Lindsay April 19, 2023 Ronald Gladden, 30, is the type of guy often described as a golden retriever. But he might be

Illustrations by Ohni Lisle Thirty-three of our favorite artists, writers, musicians, designers, and big thinkers share the mysterious rituals and dirty tricks behind their greatest work. By The Editors of GQ April 18, 2023 Creativity can feel ineffable. Mysterious. Elusive. A “you have it or you don’t” type of thing. In reality, it’s for everyone.

Lily-Rose Depp and Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye’s HBO series The Idol will finally debut June 4. A new trailer—which follows an investigation that alleged a toxic environment on set—reveals Lily Rose-Depp’s “nasty bad pop girl” and The Weeknd’s club owner-slash-cult leader. By Grant Rindner April 17, 2023 Since HBO first announced it in late 2021, The

Photographs: Getty Images; Collage: Gabe Conte GQ went to Coachella, where the generational artist gave his first live show in six years on Sunday evening. Despite its late start and early end, Ocean’s performance through grief was a chaotic triumph. By Eileen Cartter April 17, 2023 “It’s been so long. Everybody talks about how long

Alan Ruck and Jeremy Strong in Succession season 4 episode 4.Courtesy of David M. Russell for HBO. The future of Waystar Royco, and Succession, hinges on a pencil scribble that no one can confidently decipher. By Esther Zuckerman April 17, 2023 Logan Roy is dead, but as Succession plunges to its finish, his children are still trying