Guadagnino has followed up this year’s triumphant tennis drama Challengers with a film that would seem miles apart, yet treats desire equally as a kind of supernatural possession. It’s often frightening in his work, because its victims are always left with their hearts exposed, an image he treats literally here as he did in his 2018 horror remake Suspiria, and its climactic display of a woman tearing open her own rib cage.

Queer’s landscape is unsettled yet beautiful; through it trudges Daniel Craig’s William Lee, alter ego of the postmodernist William S Burroughs, who wrote the film’s source novel. Lee has disassociated to the degree that he’s started to fade from our view. The film catches him disappearing like an image into television static. Guadagnino even throws in the odd, anachronistic track – Nirvana’s “Come as You Are”, or Radiohead’s “Talk Show Host” – to echo his displacement. He’s in the wrong time, in the wrong place. – Independent (UK)

“Queer, stylish as it is, may be his most heartfelt movie, at least since Call Me By Your Name.” – TIME