Luca Guadagnino pits Zendaya against two of our hottest young actors for a scintillating, needy tennis love triangle. Our Challengers review:
There’s no need to know, or even enjoy, anything about the sport of tennis to find enjoyment in director Luca Guadagnino’s. I, for example, don’t know dick about tennis. Still, tennis is inextricably knotted to its sensuous love triangle, which evolves over the course of 13 tumultuous years, climaxing with a match between two estranged players whose love story eclipses the more overt romance between the pair and Zendaya’s tennis prodigy, Tashi Duncan.
Thirteen years earlier, Patrick and Art were both just two young tennis studs who once jerked off together , in love with the same beautiful woman. Thirteen years later, one of them got the girl, the other is cosplaying as poor, and the former two haven’t spoken to the latter in years.
Zendaya has finally made the leap from child acting to adult acting—although, I suppose we are choosing to memory-holestar believably plays a confident young woman who gets off on making horny boys do what she wants. She’s been unconvincing to me in her otherwise lauded performance of Rue on, but maybe that’s because she has been, yes, an adult woman playing a teenager for the past two mediocre, overblown seasons of television.
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