Call Me by Your Name skips through time like a dream, or a calcified, powerful memory. Guadagnino succeeds remarkably in working the themes into the craft and, like love that ends too soon, so does the film.

Full Review | Dec 5, 2023

Luca Guadagnino’s lush Italian masterpiece, “Call Me by Your Name,” is full of romantic subtleties: long lingering looks, brief touches, meaning-laden passages read aloud. But nothing is ever fully overt...

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | Aug 2, 2023

From the 1980s idyllic Italian countryside to the slow-burn romance, Luca Guadagnino directs a mesmerizingly dreamy summer experience.

Full Review | Apr 20, 2023

The film is romantic in a very classical sense, and the spell works.

Full Review | Jan 11, 2023

17-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet, in his best performance to date) lives with his parents in suburban Northern Italy. Elio's archaeologist papa (Michael Stuhlbarg) invites an American grad student (the always-wooden Armie Hammer), to spend the summer..

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jul 7, 2022

Chalamet rocketed from obscurity onto the Hollywood A-List thanks to Call Me By Your Name, and with good reason: he didnt just give a great performance in the film, he gave the best performance of 2017.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 20, 2022

Call Me by Your Name taps into universal emotions that belong to everyone who has loved, and rewards our experience through luscious filmmaking.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 16, 2022

Call Me By Your Name is a film that captures a human truth in a way like no others.

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | Mar 4, 2022

While it's the simmering sexual tension that keeps you watching for most of the film, it's only later that you realise this is a character piece about a man's bluster and how his confidence does not make him strong.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 2, 2021

The most humane and kind movie in a year that featured so many others filled with anxiety and darkness.

Full Review | Jul 20, 2021

Chalamet's performance is magnificent - this is the sort of performance that stretches across a lifetime. This is "Hey look we have our own James Dean now" level good stuff here

Full Review | Original Score: A | Jul 6, 2021

The blossoming romance between these two men, that unfurls over six sun-dappled weeks in northern Italy, is utterly ravishing.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 25, 2021

What the film does with that, thanks to the performance by 2017 all-star Michael Stuhlbarg, is surprising and life-affirming.

Full Review | Apr 13, 2021

Chalamet is quickly becoming one of the most reliable young actors around...

Full Review | Dec 11, 2020

The actors are superbly convincing.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 5, 2020

It's certainly a handsome piece of escapist-touristic fantasy, though I remain skeptical of Guadagnino, who often seems truer to his sideline as a luxury-product advertiser than he does to the narrative and psychological depth...

Full Review | Oct 19, 2020

One of 2017's most engaging and loving films.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 4, 2020

[I]ncredibly seedy and oft-fetishized . . . In the world of Call Me by Your Name, this sort of behavior is literal, and it's abusive.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2020

Chalamet's performance is subtle but thorough, his body language conveys so many feelings... his stare is the reflection of the love he desires. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Jul 3, 2020

[T]here is nothing else in their world of two, no other possible reference ... The film is powerful not in spite of the fact that it's a summer fling, but because of it.

Full Review | Jul 1, 2020