Daniel Craig's new movie Queer gets fresh Rotten Tomatoes rating
James Bond actor Daniel Craig's new film Queer has received a solid Rotten Tomatoes score following its Venice Film Festival premiere.
Based on William S Burroughs' 1985 novel and helmed by Call Me By Your Name and Challengers director Luca Guadagnino, Queer is set in the 1940s and follows a man named William Lee (Craig) who becomes infatuated with the younger Gene Allterton (Drew Starkey).
At the time of writing, the film has an RT score of 78% from 36 reviews. That means almost four out of every five reviews are generally positive, rather than serving as an average score.
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Here's what some of the reviews have said:
BBC
"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."
Rolling Stone
"Craig goes for broke cruising for sex and drugs, heading rapidly for a permanent case of heartbreak. Depending on how homophobic or timid certain awards-voting demographics, he may also be cruising for something shiny and gold as well. Regardless, this is a milestone in his career. May a thousand disruptive flowers bloom for him in its wake."
Telegraph
"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."
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The Playlist
"Rising star Drew Starkey is the film's true revelation. He constructs Allerton as possessing something akin to Schr?dinger's sexuality with his ability to reflect exactly what an observer wants to see... he presents his character's true needs as a puzzle for solving. His beguiling demeanor presents an invitation to engage without being a solicitation to ogle, a fine line to toe that the actor does nimbly."
Vogue
"It's in this third act, when Lee and Allerton head into the forest, that the film goes completely and spectacularly off the rails: they visit a doctor living in the wilderness (a demented and almost unrecognizable Lesley Manville), and what was a melancholy tale of addiction and unrequited love temporarily becomes a kind of mad jungle comedy."
Queer is yet to receive an official release date.
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