Challengers review: Zendaya's bright, sexy and witty tennis love triangle is a smash, writes BRIAN VINER
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dailym.ai— BRIAN VINER: The Italian director Luca Guadagnino certainly can't be accused of making boring films. His last, 2022's Bones And All, was about cannibalistic serial killers.
Variety—‘Challengers’ Heats Up: How Zendaya’s Star Power and a Sexy Love Triangle Could Give Gen Z Its Next Movie Obsession. On June 20, 2022, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor sat at the edge of a motel bed on either side of Zendaya, kissing, licking and biting her neck. As Art and Patrick, their respective “Challengers” characters, they were desperate for more of Tashi, played by Zendaya, and desperate to mask their desperation. Zendaya’s mind was […]
Mashable—'Challengers' review: You're not ready for Zendaya's horny love-triangle drama. Luca Guadagnino's tennis movie, "Challengers," starring Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O'Connor, is so much more. Review.
The Guardian—Challengers review – Zendaya holds court in absurdly sexy three-way tennis romance. Luca Guadagnino’s sizzling, sharply scripted drama, co-starring Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, is such fun it’s almost indecentNobody harnesses horniness quite like Luca Guadagnino. With his lavish, luxurious portrait of forbidden lust, the Tilda Swinton-starring I Am Love, Guadagnino embraced one of cinema’s most cliched symbolic sensual devices, filling the frame with come-hither shots of delectable food. But somehow, in his hands, this hackneyed metaphor feels fresh, and the film is a...