'Challengers' review: A tennis romance that sizzles with bubbling ferocity


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What started out as an innocent breakfast date got ugly when Mike stole Zendaya’s egg. — Photos: Handout

By the time Luca Guadagnino’s erotically charged tennis film Challengers reaches its breathless, sweaty, pulse-pounding and deeply satisfying climax, you’ll be reaching for a cigarette, figuratively speaking.

Rarely is a film so sensorially captivating, every element of cinema, including script, cinematography, editing, score and performance blending together to create such a fizzy, frenzied brew, a chemical reaction of rage and lust sizzling with bubbling ferocity.

10 10

Summary:


Game, sex, match.

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