Daniel Craig is a marvel here. He flings himself around inside Lee, clearly loving the vulnerability and the volatility of the role.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 10, 2025

Though Daniel Craig revels in a career-best performance, he is underserved by Guadagnino’s unfocused reverie for Burroughs’ work. The result is a messy film that’s definitely artistic, but is only partially enjoyable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 30, 2025

Guadagnino brings a punk sensibility to the Beat Generation in Queer, the long gestating adaptation of William S. Burroughs' pseudo memoir led by a mournful Daniel Craig as a lonely misfit devouring his own soul.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 21, 2025

The film is built on an uneven collection of episodes and intensities that never takes us anywhere despite a feverish final act.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 28, 2025

A stark reminder of what a brilliant actor Daniel Craig can be when he is given the opportunity with a meaty role. While the second half of the film is a bit of a let down for the most part this is a beautifully written piece on the human condition.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 27, 2025

The novella might have been slim, and the dialogue in this film sparse, but there's an encyclopaedia of meaning to every shot that will be written and debated over by film aficionados for years to come.

| Feb 24, 2025

At this current historical moment, Queer is a work of radical theory and intent that, while it’s still legal, enriches the medium and cranks up all the conflicted emotional responses.

| Feb 19, 2025

Luca Guadagnino always has a singular vision in his work and while not every element works, you’re always glad he put it out there.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 19, 2025

A vibrant and sometimes venomous adaptation of William S Burroughs' novel, Luca Guadagnino's latest film features a magnetic central performance by Daniel Craig.

| Feb 14, 2025

[Craig's] performance out front of Queer, playing a gay American writer in exile down Mexico way in the 1950s, is one of his finest to date.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 12, 2025

It’s as if [Daniel Craig]’s reminding you that he proved himself as a gifted, versatile – and occasionally unglamorous – actor long before 007 called on his services.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 8, 2025

Craig’s emotionally raw performance is the highlight of this patchy film based on the 1985 semi-autobiographical novella of the same name by American writer William S. Burroughs.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2025

Queer is somehow both beautiful and ugly, unaware what it wants to be. That's how obsession works. Guadagnino suggests, we accept both.

| Feb 6, 2025

Daniel Craig cuts a tragic swathe through booze-soaked heartbreak.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 6, 2025

Craig is terrific throughout Queer.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 4, 2025

No Burroughs adaptation done right will fail to challenge us – and Queer does that, absolutely. But Craig draws us in and makes it very hard for us to leave.

| Feb 3, 2025

[Queer] lacks the ability to convey the soul of the characters to the audience. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 31, 2025

While Daniel Craig delivers an uninhibited and commendable performance, the film struggles to resonate beyond its visual and thematic experimentation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 31, 2025

Guadagnino has always understood that desire in its purest form is a little grotesque, and Queer leans into that discomfort.

| Jan 30, 2025

It has a notable performance by Daniel Craig, who sometimes errs on the side of pretentiousness, but I often have the feeling that most of the time the contrived plot remains empty like a shot on the rocks without whiskey. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 28, 2025