There’s not only pain and heartache in that reflection by the fire, but also a tinge of hope and relief. It’s astounding in how powerful it is.

| Aug 8, 2024

It would be easy, but superficial, to lump Call Me by Your Name as just a romance film between two young men, but director Luca Guadagnino thankfully has a lot more on his mind.

| Jul 2, 2024

Call Me by Your Name skips through time like a dream, or a calcified, powerful memory. Guadagnino succeeds remarkably in working the themes into the craft and, like love that ends too soon, so does the film.

| Dec 5, 2023

Luca Guadagnino’s lush Italian masterpiece, “Call Me by Your Name,” is full of romantic subtleties: long lingering looks, brief touches, meaning-laden passages read aloud. But nothing is ever fully overt...

| Original Score: A+ | Aug 2, 2023

From the 1980s idyllic Italian countryside to the slow-burn romance, Luca Guadagnino directs a mesmerizingly dreamy summer experience.

| Apr 20, 2023

The film is romantic in a very classical sense, and the spell works.

| Jan 11, 2023

17-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet, in his best performance to date) lives with his parents in suburban Northern Italy. Elio's archaeologist papa (Michael Stuhlbarg) invites an American grad student (the always-wooden Armie Hammer), to spend the summer..

| Original Score: B- | Jul 7, 2022

Chalamet rocketed from obscurity onto the Hollywood A-List thanks to Call Me By Your Name, and with good reason: he didnt just give a great performance in the film, he gave the best performance of 2017.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 20, 2022

Call Me by Your Name taps into universal emotions that belong to everyone who has loved, and rewards our experience through luscious filmmaking.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 16, 2022

Call Me By Your Name is a film that captures a human truth in a way like no others.

| Original Score: A+ | Mar 4, 2022

While it's the simmering sexual tension that keeps you watching for most of the film, it's only later that you realise this is a character piece about a man's bluster and how his confidence does not make him strong.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 2, 2021

The most humane and kind movie in a year that featured so many others filled with anxiety and darkness.

| Jul 20, 2021

Chalamet's performance is magnificent - this is the sort of performance that stretches across a lifetime. This is "Hey look we have our own James Dean now" level good stuff here

| Original Score: A | Jul 6, 2021

The blossoming romance between these two men, that unfurls over six sun-dappled weeks in northern Italy, is utterly ravishing.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 25, 2021

What the film does with that, thanks to the performance by 2017 all-star Michael Stuhlbarg, is surprising and life-affirming.

| Apr 13, 2021

Chalamet is quickly becoming one of the most reliable young actors around...

| Dec 11, 2020

The actors are superbly convincing.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 5, 2020

It's certainly a handsome piece of escapist-touristic fantasy, though I remain skeptical of Guadagnino, who often seems truer to his sideline as a luxury-product advertiser than he does to the narrative and psychological depth...

| Oct 19, 2020

One of 2017's most engaging and loving films.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 4, 2020

[I]ncredibly seedy and oft-fetishized . . . In the world of Call Me by Your Name, this sort of behavior is literal, and it's abusive.

| Jul 25, 2020