Queer (2024)

Daniel Craig, shifting dramatically from 007, shows a whole new side in this bold adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ revolutionary novel. A stand-in for a pre-fame Burroughs, William Lee is a dissipated refugee from America in the ‘50s, who arrives in Mexico City’s underbelly, to negotiate his “corrupt” desires. “Queer” tells the story of Burroughs’ love affair with Eugene (Drew Starkey), who he initially sees as an underground vision of rapture. In Luca Guadagnino’s (Call Me By Your Name, Challengers) telling, the film is a luscious, barbed comedy of liberation, then a trippy road comedy about the search for mind-altering transcendence. (dir. Luca Guadagnino, U.S., 2024, 135m)

“Guadagnino meets Burroughs on the iconoclast’s own slippery terms and the result is mesmerizing.” — Hollywood Reporter