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Challengers (15)
★★★★★ Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino serves up the sexiest film about tennis you are ever likely to see, with Zendaya's grand slam performance showing she's come along way from the Disney Channel, in more way than one. ~ ManchesterTheatres.com.
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From visionary Oscar and BAFTA nominee filmmaker Luca Guadagnino ("Call Me By Your Name," "I Am Love"), "Challengers" stars Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a former tennis prodigy-turned-coach and a force of nature who makes no apologies for her game on and off the court.
Married to a champion on a losing streak (Mike Faist), Tashi’s strategy for her husband’s redemption takes a surprising turn when he must face off against the washed-up Patrick (Josh O’Connor)—his former best friend and Tashi’s former boyfriend.
As their pasts and presents collide, and tensions run high, Tashi must ask herself, what will it cost to win?
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★★★★★ Luca Guadagnino serves up an ace with Challengers, a sexy, funny, emotionally wrought tennis drama set during a single match, but encapsulating 13 years of friendship, rivalry and sexual misadventures. ~ The Scotsman.
★★★★★ Guadagnino’s thrilling new intoxicating and extravagantly sexy tennis psychodrama posits that every conversation is a tennis match, and every tennis match is a sex scene – you will be powerless to resist it. ~ The Independent.
★★★★★ This is the sort of barbed character study that Gudagnino has turned into a fine art throughout his career, delighting in the ways humans are consistently but uniquely callous to one another. ~ Little White Lies.
★★★★★ Operating at the peak of his powers, Luca Guadagnino has the time of his life with this practically sadistic exploration of unrelenting obsession. It is horny, it is hungry, it is phenomenally exciting filmmaking. ~ Empire.
★★★★★ Zendaya’s tennis love triangle serves up racquet-twanging steaminess. Umpiring a rivalry between Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor, the star’s romantic thriller is the most purely pleasurable film of the year. ~ The Telegraph.
★★★★★ Zendaya is faultless in the best tennis movie of all. With terrific central performances and director Luca Guadagnino at the top of his game, this is a sexy masterclass in tension and storytelling. ~ The Times.
★★★★ ~ Financial Times.
★★★★ ~ The Guardian.
★★★★ ~ Radio Times.
★★★★ ~ Total Film.
★★★★ ~ NME.
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