Queer
| Release Date: November 27, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 50 Critic Reviews
Positive:
34
Mixed:
16
Negative:
0
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60
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rebecca TuckerDec 13, 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. Read full review
60
EmpireJohn NugentNov 25, 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. Read full review
60
LooperAudrey FoxSep 6, 2024
Although the relationship between Craig and Drew Starkey, who plays his reluctant lover, is endlessly fascinating, the film doesn't do enough to explore it, instead taking an odd third act turn into an entirely different plot and dragging out every minute of its runtime with trippy, pseudo-intellectual visuals. Read full review
60
Time OutSophie Monks KaufmanSep 3, 2024
Queer may be flawed, but its naked approach to such a raw subject, coupled with a remarkable lead performance, makes it a trip worth taking. Read full review
60
Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganSep 3, 2024
For a Burroughs adaptation, it has all the provocation but none of the haunting power that Naked Lunch still holds, almost 35 years later. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreSep 3, 2024
The stylistic choices Guadagnino makes throughout Queer are invariably more engaging than the central story itself, no matter what the filmmaker tries unsuccessfully to will it into. Read full review
60
BBCNicholas BarberSep 3, 2024
Craig's soul-baring, skin-baring turn aside, Queer is a proudly artificial curio. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerDec 5, 2024
In his three-acts-and-an-epilogue structure, Guadagnino inserts more story than Burroughs intended, and Queer becomes aimless. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalZachary BarnesDec 5, 2024
The resulting film is curiously anachronistic and unconvincing, less a journey to a distant time and place than an Instagram post of one—pretty, posed and denuded of deeper feelings. Read full review
50
Paste MagazineLuke HicksOct 11, 2024
Where Burroughs achieved the profound in the brevity of the novella, Guadagnino punishes you with longwindedness, ending after (non-final) ending souring the film into a clock-watching endurance test. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineKeith UhlichOct 8, 2024
In the end, Luca Guadagnino effectively turns a very complicated literary figure into the kind of blubbering, nostalgic old man you’d expect to see in a student film or a Sundance prizewinner. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyMaureen Lee LenkerSep 12, 2024
Queer is an exercise in cinematic smugness. It’s a shame because it does contain some truly fine performances and compelling imagery. But much like its central character, it can’t get over itself. Read full review
42
The Film StageLeonardo GoiSep 3, 2024
Queer’s hollowness––its inability to fully flesh out its hero’s psyche––feels all the more conspicuous: a failure of the imagination. Read full review
40
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeDec 16, 2024
The yagé trip sequence is overlong, baggy and indulgent. The characters lose all sense of their bodies; the film simply loses its point. Read full review
40
The Irish TimesTara BradyDec 11, 2024
The misused music and hollow visuals set the tone for a vacuous film that frequently feels like an overstyled catalogue shoot. Read full review
40
The TimesKevin MaherSep 3, 2024
It’s visually appealing, obviously, because Guadagnino does not make ugly films. But it’s difficult to convey how little, dramatically speaking, is happening here. Read full review
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