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Challengers Is Almost a Sexy Movie
Just like it’s almost a good tennis film, and almost the mature starring role Zendaya needed.
“It’s an open relationship,” Patrick counters with a wolfish grin that cuts through the pressure in the boys’ messy, overheated motel room one night, strewn with cigarette ash and half-filled cans of beer. In the third act, the haphazard jutting finally begins to add texture to the story,but by then, I had spent too long wondering why writer Justin Kuritzkes and editor Marco Costa had hobbled the film’s structure in a too-obvious homage to the serve and return. On red carpets ahead of the premiere, Zendaya (in collaboration with stylist Law Roach) has put on the kind of silkened armor and saucy charm necessary for the role of Tashi, bringing an edge, maturity, and boldness to her star image in the process whether wearing a custom blush-pink Jacquemus dress or all-white Calvin Klein suiting.
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