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

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

It goes off the deep end, and the film was never that deep to begin with.

| Jan 17, 2025

Back in the 1950s... all of this probably would've been a good deal more interesting. But I got to tell you, today it's not very interesting at all.

| Jan 17, 2025

This is my favorite Guadagnino film so far.

| Jan 11, 2025

This hypnotic, often moving film speaks eloquently — in some scenes, graphically — about queer carnal ecstasy, and about the difficulty of its pursuit. It is a remarkable achievement by the prolific Guadagnino.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 23, 2024

At 2 hours and 17 minutes, the film is a little bloated, though the expansiveness and inventiveness of the filmmaking make that sound like complaining about too much dessert.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 17, 2024

It is a remarkably beautiful portrait of agony, anchored by Craig’s remarkably understated performance. But it’s also a film at odds with itself. With Queer, Guadagnino has made a movie unsure of its own identity, visually and stylistically.

| Dec 16, 2024

[Daniel Craig's] performance is continually undermined by the arch artificiality of the film’s design. Shot largely on a set constructed at Rome’s Cinecittà studios, the whole look of the picture screams phoniness.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 16, 2024

It rewards the viewer with a sense of the vast beauty – and sadness – a fleeting love affair might provide.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 16, 2024

There’s an air of unreality about the film. With its impeccable production design, its Almodóvarian emphasis on primary colours and its anachronistic use of late 20th-century rock songs, it sometimes seems more like animation than real life.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 13, 2024

Luca Guadagnino's flawed but fascinating gay love story is lifted to the heights by Daniel Craig who captures his character’s sexual heat and yearning heart in a performance he seems to tear from his insides. Is an Oscar nomination next? That’s the idea.

| Dec 13, 2024

Guadagnino has followed up this year’s triumphant tennis drama Challengers with a film that would seem miles apart, yet treats desire equally as a kind of supernatural possession.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 13, 2024

There is not a trace of Burroughs in the film, neither in the flaky narrative nor the prosaic tone. ... Worse still, Guadagnino’s screenplay reduces William Lee to a barroom bore. When the credits finally roll, it’s a welcome escape.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 12, 2024

It’s Craig’s powerful performance that makes it. Much is asked of him and he delivers. In lesser hands, Lee would definitely be repellent, but Craig deploys his ravaged charisma to imbue him with such pain and longing and woundedness that we feel for him.

| Dec 12, 2024

Craig is impossible to look away from; his bouts of desperation and all-consuming yearning command your attention at every turn in a way that feels both highly manicured yet totally disheveled.

| Dec 11, 2024

A feverish, quietly sad exploration of longing and infatuation. Its lack of focus stifles the experience, but Daniel Craig has rarely been as compelling a watch.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 10, 2024

Queer is both visually lush, sexually explosive, and emotionally infuriating. It is not a journey that leaves our hearts full, but open and aching.

| Dec 10, 2024

The most unconventional thing about the Lee in Guadagnino's version of "Queer" is that he's played by Craig, who, of course, is famous as the most recent James Bond.

| Dec 9, 2024