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Feature movie review: QUEER

It feels somewhat evident from the outset, as Sinéad O'Connor's cover version of Nirvana's "All Apologies" plays over the opening credits, with its well-known lyric "everyone is gay."

Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey in Queer I think —and I'm wise enough to use that qualifier—that I know what director Luca Guadagnino and screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes were aiming for in their adaptation of William S. Burroughs' semi-autobiographical novella Queer .

It feels somewhat evident from the outset, as Sinéad O'Connor's cover version of Nirvana's "All Apologies" plays over the opening credits, with its well-known lyric "everyone is gay." As we see the life of Burroughs' counterpart William Lee (Daniel Craig) play out on screen, drinking and looking for connection among other gay…

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