'Deeply stirring' Daniel Craig film that left viewers 'thinking for hours' lands streaming release date

Queer has been praised for having a 'career-best' show from Daniel Craig.

A caller romanticist play that near viewers 'thinking for hours' is making its mode to the UK adjacent week.

Queer, which premiered astatine Venice Film Festival past September, is the latest movie from James Bond prima Daniel Craig.

Set successful 1950s Mexico City, it follows William Lee (Craig), an American expat who falls successful emotion with a overmuch younger antheral (Drew Starkey).

The R-rated romance is based connected William S Burroughs' 1985 novella of the aforesaid name, and was helmed by Oscar-nominated manager Luca Guadagnino.

Moviegoers volition cognize Guadagnino for his 2017 deed movie Call Me By Your Name, which propelled Timothee Chalamet to fame. He is besides acclaimed for his tennis blockbuster Challengers, which starred Zendaya and Josh O'Connor.

Following its USA debut successful November 2024, Mubi has present announced that UK and Ireland viewers tin watercourse Queer exclusively connected the level from January 31.

Although the A24 diagnostic lone had a constricted theatrical merchandise successful America, it has already received overwhelming praise from aboriginal viewers.

The critics connected Rotten Tomatoes awarded it a 77% rating, and applauded Craig successful their consensus. "A phantasmagorical distillation of William S. Burroughs' preoccupations that's by turns meandering and vital, Queer marks 1 of Daniel Craig's astir sterling performances yet," they reviewed.

Audiences were likewise impressed by the decorated actor's on-screen presence, with 1 idiosyncratic stating: "Daniel Craig delivers his career-best show successful this meandering but intimately changeable romanticist drama."

A 2nd moviegoer shared online: "Wow!! Daniel Craig’s acting....you conscionable consciousness for him the full movie. To privation idiosyncratic and emotion that deep....It was truthful hard to ticker him conflict with his addictions. This movie has maine reasoning for hours aft I watched it. I liked it truthful overmuch that I mightiness spell spot it again. It had truthful overmuch feeling to it. I can’t adjacent picture it." (sic)

While a 3rd idiosyncratic voiced their verdict: "Queer is an ambitious film, not lone for Luca Guadagnino, but for Daniel Craig himself. It’s adjacent parts mesmerizing — a superb showcase of the prima kissed splendour of Mexico — and profoundly stirring and polarizing."

The play marks Guadagnino's 2nd collaboration with screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes, whom helium besides worked with connected Challengers.

Its formed is completed by Lesley Manville, Jason Schwartzman, Henrique Zaga, Omar Apollo, Andra Ursuta, Andres Duprat, Ariel Shulman, Drew Droege, Michael Borremans, David Lowery, Lisandro Alonso and Colin Bates.

Queer volition beryllium disposable to watercourse connected MUBI from January 31.