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A Quiet Place: Day One Is—Quietly—The Best Blockbuster of the Summer So Far
Michael Sarnoski’s suspense-steeped horror prequel builds on the franchise in meaningful ways, and its feline performance is the cat’s pajamas.
By Jack King
Culture
Donald Sutherland Became a Screen Icon in the 1970s. This Reserved 1971 Performance Might Be His Masterpiece
Alan J. Pakula's Klute was a showcase for Jane Fonda, who won the Oscar for it—but Sutherland's work as a simple small-town cop exemplifies the late actor's greatness.
By Evan McGarvey
Culture
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Movies Are Weird, Violent, and Disturbingly Funny. What's It Like to Be in One?
As Kinds of Kindness—the mysterious Greek director's wild, sprawling follow-up to the Oscar-nominated Poor Things—hits theaters, his collaborators tell all, including Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Joe Alwyn, Olivia Colman and many more.
By Esther Zuckerman
Culture
How The Bikeriders Nailed ’60s Tough-Guy Biker Style (And How to Nail It for Yourself)
Costume designer Erin Benach says she obsessed over details, just like real bikers would: “They look so badass and hard-core, but when you unpack it you realize how much time and effort it must have taken to get them to look like that.”
By Caroline Reilly
Culture
The Bikeriders Is Basically Bikefellas, but in a Good Way
Austin Butler and Tom Hardy's latest, which plays the rise and fall of a familial motorcycle gang against a subculture's assimilation by pop culture, nails what so many Marty imitators shoot for and miss.
By Jesse Hassenger
Culture
Michael Shannon Strongly Endorses The Bikeriders, Spooky Electronica, and Bobby Flay’s Salmon
“I don’t have that masculine obsession with machines. I’ve never had it, really.”
By Gabriella Paiella
Culture
Ben Platt, Jeremy Pope, Jenna Lyons, and More on the Queer Art That Made Them
From Elton John to Thierry Mugler, Ani DiFranco to Peter Pan, 24 life-changing moments of queer culture
By Raymond Ang, Heven Haile, Jack King, and Alex Wedel
Culture
What Is Deadpool and Wolverine's Big Gay Marketing Campaign Trying to Say?
The rollout for Marvel's latest crossover bonanza keeps making homoerotic jokes about its mutant-bro leads. Is this all they've got?
By Jack King
Style
Can Dressing Well Make You a Better Movie Director?
In this exclusive excerpt from A24's new book, How Directors Dress, The Souvenir auteur Joanna Hogg muses on the power of a filmmaker's uniform.
By Joanna Hogg
Culture
Napoleon Dynamite's ‘Vote For Pedro’ T-Shirt: A Definitive Oral History
It was a spur-of-the-moment visual gag in a low-budget movie made by first-time filmmakers fresh out of BYU. It became the biggest-selling T-shirt in Hot Topic history. Jon Heder, Efren Ramirez, director Jared Hess and many others tell the full story of the shirt—and how it helped turn the movie that inspired it into an unlikely mainstream hit.
By Paula Mejía
Culture
It Took Colman Domingo Three Decades to Reach the Summit of Hollywood. Now What?
After years of grinding, Colman Domingo has finally been nominated for an Oscar and become the new king of red-carpet style.
By Gabriella Paiella
Photography by Damien Maloney
Culture
Will Smith’s Big Bad Boys Box Office Came on the Heels of One of His Best Rollouts
Bad Boys: Ride or Die might have been a sure thing all along, but Smith's first post-Slap press run was still a master class in changing the conversation.
By Frazier Tharpe
Culture
Hit Man's Ending, Explained by Adria Arjona: “I Think at Their Core, They're Good People”
The actor's screwball rom-com with Glen Powell, directed by School of Rock's Richard Linklater, is the crowd-pleasingest movie of the summer. She talks GQ through the scenes that had us on our feet.
By Jack King
Culture
Is Hit Man a True Story? Was Gary Johnson a Real Fake Hit Man? Well, Sort Of
Richard Linklater's crowdpleaser tells the story of Gary Johnson, a faux assassin-for-hire who took down over 60 perps for soliciting his services. That part really happened—but what about everything else?
By Jack King
Culture
Sabrina Carpenter and Barry Keoghan's ‘Please Please Please’ Video Was Inspired by Bennifer and Quentin Tarantino
GQ spoke to director Bardia Zeinali about casting Barry Keoghan and the possibility of a Sabrina Carpenter Cinematic Universe.
By Daisy Jones
Culture
Does Bad Boys: Ride or Die Really Reference ‘The Slap’?
In his second major role since his controversial outburst at the Oscars in 2022, Will Smith seems to want to be in on the joke.
By Jack King
Culture
Watch Hit Man On Netflix This Weekend and Believe the Glen Powell Hype
The Top Gun star teams with Richard Linklater for a comedy-thriller-romance about a jorts-wearing college professor who moonlights as an assassin-for-hire (but doesn't actually kill people.)
By Gabriella Paiella
Culture
Watch Godzilla Minus One, the Best Godzilla Movie in Years, on Netflix Right Now
The King of the Monsters threatens Japan again in an Oscar-winning kaiju movie full of real pathos, made for a fraction of the price of a Monsterverse movie.
By Iana Murray
Culture
The Next Knives Out Will Star Literally All of the Internet's Favorite Actors
Josh O'Connor, Glenn Close, Andrew Scott—it's never too soon to start speculating on which of these beloved stars will turn out to be a cold-blooded murderer.
By Lucy Ford and Daisy Jones
Culture
The Second Maxxxine Trailer Is Here: Mia Goth Goes Hollywood, Faces Death by '80s Vibes
Lily Collins, Elizabeth Debicki, Halsey, and a Laura Branigan song costar in the new trailer for the final chapter of Ti West's A24 slasher trilogy, due out later this summer.
By Ryan Kent