Challengers - Movie Review

Chris Stuckmann reviews Challengers, starring Zendaya, Mike Faist, Josh O'Connor. Directed by Luca Guadagnino.

[josabby]

If toxic people are going to be in relationships, I’d rather see them with other toxic people instead of narcissists being with empaths and gaslighting them.

[Morphed]

Better help is a company that sold confidential user information and was fined for it. I don’t feel like they should be promoted as a company

[NightlyGiraffe]

As someone who works in mental health, I’ve heard a loooot of shady stuff about Better Help

[gavinkane]

I understand you have to pay the bills but I would maybe drop Better Help as a sponsor for the reasons others have already commented.

[hanyolo]

Better help is terrible to the point you seem shady by sponsoring them.

-just a fan that been here over a decade

[theodorebookeriv]

I think the daughter was in the film to show that Art actually cared about he and Tashi's marraige/what it made.

[brackster]

The film score almost steals the show, and credit Reznor and Ross, they are putting some of the best scores over the past several years. This film is special. I’ve seen it twice and it’s just a well crafted and acted film.

[Dragonwriter]

I don't think toxic relationships are needed for romance like action is for action movies. The conflict in a story can come from outside as well as inside normal relationships. Toxic relationships are too often normalized.

[Obesecrustatians]

The better help sponsorship still going strong 😭

[hal]

DO NOT USE BETTER HELP! THEY ARE NOT BOARD CERTIFIED MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS!!!

[KevinAccetta]

The problem with toxic relationships in drama movies isn't that they exist, it's that they get romanticized and portrayed as desirable. Not all the time, but often enough.

[jandib]

Why do so many people want reviews for bad movies? I'd rather focus on the ones that are interesting or worth my time.
I don't care for joining hate trains for movies I won't even watch.

I'm all for Chris' format, personally.

There are plenty of reviewers out there to choose from when it comes to dunking on films

[jonwesick]

"My Dinner with Andre" featured two people who got along and went for coffee and I loved it.

[spidertao]

WTF more comments about better help than the movie. Movie was insane. Zendaya was smoking hot and such a bitch. OMG. I’ve never wanted to play tennis in my life as I do now. What a riveting film lol

[Dethmaster]

I would have never thought that the Potion Seller would one day write a screenplay for an Oscar-nominated filmmaker like Luca Guadagnino

[thejuliasimoes]

I have been a fan of Mike Faist for 12 years and I am SO HAPPY everyone is finally realizing he is an amazing actor. Hope he has a great career!

[abrahamcota]

Please Chris, drop the BetterHelp sponsor ASAP!

[swirlingchi]

About the loud soundtrack… from the recent GQ interview with Reznor and Ross: “Then Guadagnino brought them Challengers, which will be released this month. Reznor said, “He started us down a path, saying, ‘What if it was very loud techno music through the whole film?’ ” (This is exactly what it turned out to be.)”

“I wish I had his notes, ” Ross said of Guadagnino. “His notes were so fucking funny on what each piece was meant to do.”

“Oh, yeah, ” Reznor said. “ ‘Unending homoerotic desire.’ It was all a variation on those three words.”

[lazzi]

Zendaya's daughter??!?! For some reason, I can't picture her playing as a Mom. I think I've watched too much Euphoria & Spiderman. Lol

[priesnandad]

I think the child symbolizes Art wanting to end his career and to devote himself to his daughter, even though they rarely, or maybe never spoke, in that movie, but that's because he has to focused on his career, or at least Tashi leads him to. I noticed this when Tashi was back at the hotel and can't find Art his their bedroom, instead he's sleeping with his daughter.