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A Tennis Dummy’s Guide to the Ending of Challengers
So, uh, who won that last match?
Director Luca Guadagnino is smart enough to know that if you mash three of the most attractive people in the world together with a script about athletic prowess and competitive drive and explore the psychosexual power dynamics between their characters, you’ll wind up with the horniest movie of the year. When Challengers ends, the only real question is how quickly did tennis freaks Tashi Duncan (Zendaya), Art Donaldson (Mike Faist), and Patrick Zweig (Josh O’Connor) find the nearest hotel room in New Rochelle to finally have the three-way they (we) have been waiting for. Art suddenly finds his competitive drive, and he and Patrick engage in an insane long rally full of booming forehands, exhausted grunts, and ultimately both players at net volleying the ball back and forth at each other in a manner that actually defies physics.
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