Challengers (2024) (original) (raw)

Tashi, a former tennis prodigy turned coach, turned her husband into a champion. But to overcome a losing streak, he needs to face his ex-best friend and Tashi's ex-boyfriend.

Tashi, a former tennis prodigy turned coach, turned her husband into a champion. But to overcome a losing streak, he needs to face his ex-best friend and Tashi's ex-boyfriend. (less)

Director: Luca Guadagnino
Writer: Justin Kuritzkes
Starring: Zendaya, Josh O'Connor, Mike Faist, Jake Jensen, Faith Fay, Christine Dye
Producer: Luca Guadagnino

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Review by Brian Orndorf, April 12, 2024

5 / 10

Director Luca Guadagnino is preoccupied with making sensual, violently charged features, recently on display in 2022�s �Bones and All,� where he sought to create screen poetry with a wild world of young love and cannibalism. There�s a change of setting for �Challengers,� but the material (scripted by Justin Kuritzkes) largely remains with ravenous characters out to devour and destroy one another, doing so in the realm of tennis players and their vicious insecurities. The endeavor is all flesh and fears, and Guadagnino is absolutely determined to draw out a relatively simple study of obsession ...read more...

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