How Challengers Revolutionized the Thriller

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Challengers may not be filled with crime and violence... but it has an element of s-xual danger and suspense to it that's hard to miss.

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Justin Chang, “Love Means Nothing in Tennis, But Everything in Challengers” The New Yorker (2024).

Maddie Ellis, “Why the writer of ‘Challengers’ classifies it as not a romance, but an ‘er-tic, tennis thriller’” Today (2024).

Gabriella Ferrigine, “Without explicit s-x scenes, "Challengers" is the h-rny movie Gen Z has been waiting for” Salon (2024).

Tyler Foggatt, “”Challengers” is Essentially a Well Shot Commercial” The New Yorker (2024).

David Jenkins, “Luca Guadagnino: ‘I don’t watch tennis matches. It’s quite boring to me’” Little White Lies (2024).

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