An automatic awards-season front runner for Daniel Craig as best actor, Luca Guadagnino’s deliberately louche adaptation of the semi-autobiographical 1985 novella by William S. Burroughs is easily his most cohesive film to date. My regular reader will know that I’ve not found much to admire in his Suspiria, Bones and All or Challengers, but Queer sends the director back to the gay stomping ground of his breakthrough text Call Me By Your Name, and also has a familiar comfort blanket of Burroughs icons to play with. Typewriters, insects, printed tickets and used passports all feature in the opening credits, so we know we’re The Naked Lunch adjacent with slightly less madcap visuals. The trimmings are particularly creative, particularly the anachronistic use of modern pop music, Nirvana’s Come As You Are, Prince’s Musicology and New Order’s Leave Me Alone are used in a striking way to evoke Burroughs mental state…..