'Challengers' review: You're not ready for Zendaya's horny love-triangle drama

'Challengers' review: You're not ready for Zendaya's horny love-triangle drama

MashableAsia·2024-04-13 12:00

This isn't a judgment, more of an observation: Challengers has come to leave you ragged. 

The first time I watched Luca Guadagnino's Challengers, I was so overwhelmed by its titillating sexual tension and exhilarating interpersonal drama that I struggled to find the words to describe it. The second time, I was very aware of the audience members around me who were audibly shocked and awed by the sweaty game this love-triangle drama plays. Some clucked, metaphorically clutching pearls, whenever child-star-turned-cinema-It-Girl Zendaya snarled a curse word or slid into a sexy scene. Behind me, an older man grumbled anytime things between leading men Mike Faist and Josh O'Connor got homoerotic. And this is a Luca Guadagnino movie, so that happened often. 

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