‘Craig is sensational in a role swimming in psychological complexity, which he marshals with rare intuition and grace. 

‘Queer doesn’t scrimp on provocation and pleasure, but it’s also a beautiful film about male loneliness, and the way a solitary life can so easily shade into a life sentence’ – The Telegraph critic Robbie Collin

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‘Craig always commands the screen in his regulation honorary consul crumpled white suit, hat, glasses and a pistol that he bizarrely carries around openly holstered, a droll phallic symbol for this erotic cowboy who is very much a lover not a fighter. It is a really funny, open, generous performance.’

‘It is a really funny, open, generous performance – perhaps the only disadvantage is that he upstages Starkey, just a little… Craig is strangely magnificent’ – The Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw

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‘Hats off to Daniel Craig. The 56-year-old star could hardly be trying harder, after those five James Bond films in 15 years, to shrug off the image of Ian Fleming’s ultra-heterosexual alpha-male super-spy. 

‘But it yields its most extraordinary performance, from Lesley Manville as an alarmingly formidable, borderline-unhinged American botanist and doctor who has long since gone native, is embedded in the jungle, and knows how to satisfy her questful visitors.’ – The Daily Mail critic Brian Viner

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‘Craig is touchingly vulnerable as the frustrated and exhausted barfly who knows that he isn’t the man he once was, but who still has glints of his old panache. Stripping away all the confidence that armoured James Bond and Benoit Blanc.

‘Craig reminds us of what an exceptional actor he is, and his heartbreaking performance is enough to sustain the sad anti-romance between two ex-pats’ – BBC Culture Critic Nicholas Barber

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‘Craig is fully committed to baring himself in this role – and the Oscar talk is well-deserved, as well as awards attention being almost inevitable, given how Hollywood can’t resist a bold transformation.

‘However, it can be argued that Craig is doing a lot of heavy lifting when it comes to Queer because, without him, the murkiness of its storyline – which becomes harder to penetrate’ – Metro critic Tori Brazier 

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‘The Bond star successfully shakes off his hyper-macho past, but this William S Burroughs adaptation tries too hard to be hip.

‘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’ – The Times critic Kevin Maher

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‘The whorehouses, the filth and the cock fights that Burroughs writes about do not translate convincingly onto the screen. This film needs to be dirtier.

‘Despite Craig’s superb performance and the support of his superlative co-stars, the film just doesn’t engage the audience. This might be because of Burroughs’ writing, or the problem of depicting addictions and hallucinations’ – The Evening Standard critic Jo-Ann Titmarsh

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