(L to R) Mike Faist as Art, Zendaya as Tashi and Josh O'Connor as Patrick in CHALLENGERS, directed by Luca Guadagnino, a Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures film. Credit: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures © 2023 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Aren Bergstrom @ 3 Brothers Film
- Excerpt: Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers is the kind of exciting, sexy, goofy good time that is fairly rare at the movies in 2024.
- Excerpt: El tenis es sexi. Muchos deportes lo son, claro, con su glorificación del esfuerzo y de los cuerpos trabajados hasta el cansancio, pero el tenis tiene esa narración con gemidos cada 3 segundos que hacía que un partido de María Sharapova o de Rafael Nadal fuera casi pornográfico. Sin embargo, esa cualidad que todos reconocemos, lo sexi, es muy difícil de incorporar al cine, porque no basta con mostrar piel y sudor; se necesitan diálogos insinuantes, una actitud altiva del reparto, una historia seductora.
- Excerpt: may be set in the world of professional tennis, but it makes the sexual power plays among its threesome the game itself.
- Excerpt: This romantic tennis drama offers a courtship of visuals but a faulty serve of emotion.
- Excerpt: Challengers is the sexiest tennis movie ever made! Luca Guadagnino’s best film. Zendaya is a tour de force as Tashi Duncan. Such a resilient, intelligent, mesmerizing, and manipulative character.
- Excerpt: Whether it’s that he’s by far the best actor of the trio or Kuritzkes was just able to write one of his characters light-years better than the others, O’Connor’s transformation into a trickster spoiler provides the suspense and allure necessary to invest.
- Excerpt: Challengers gets a lot out of its stars and presentation, with some sharp writing to boot, making for an appealing drama that never takes its eye off the ball.
- Excerpt: With Challengers, Luca Guadagnino has proven again that he is one of our best filmmakers currently working in the realm of messy human emotion.
- Excerpt: Luca Guadagnino’s film immerses us in an electrifying and competitive love triangle, where tennis, desire and ambition intertwine to create an experience as intense as it is captivating.
Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
Samuel Castro @ www.elcolombiano.com [Spanish]
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
Aaron Neuwirth @ We Live Entertainment
Diego Salgado @ Sofilm [Spanish]
Josh Thayer @ The Forgetful Film Critic
Sebastian Zavala @ Ventana Indiscreta [Spanish]
