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Film · 2024

Challengers

A former tennis prodigy coaches her champion husband through a slump by entering him in a low-level tournament, where he faces the onetime friend and former lover whose history with both of them still shapes their rivalry.

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  • It’s a collective simmer of sight, sound, sweat, and sensation about fascinating, complex people pushed through their paces on and off the court.
    Alonso Duralde on The Film Verdict
  • A pounding score, adventurous editing and one of the smartest weird endings in recent memory completes a movie not quite like any other.
    Linda Holmes on NPR
  • 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.
    Alex Godfrey on Empire

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