Queer (2024)

Daniel Craig is needy, horny and mesmeric in Guadagnino’s erotic drama.

Daniel Craig is heartbreaking in Luca Guadagnino’s profound kaleidoscope of unrequited love, addiction, and ayahuasca.

...a very different beast to his earlier, tennis-based ménage à trois: less straightforwardly entertaining, murkier and messier in its intentions and approach.

Craig is fully committed to the role, and he’s surrounded by some fine actors, including a barely recognisable Jason Schwartzman, saddled with a beard, sandals and heavy girth, as one of Lee’s cronies.

Burroughs would be proud.

There’s some charm to the balls-out artifice on display; even the driblets of sweat on people’s bodies are beguilingly overdone in a Querelle-lite sort of way. And Craig certainly gives his all to Guadagnino’s vision...