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A tennis court at dusk, long shadows stretching across the baseline, empty seats

Challengers and the Year Guadagnino Made Sport Sexy

Two years after Challengers arrived in its pastel pressure-cooker, the film's trick is clearer: it is not really about tennis. It is about what love looks like when three people are too competitive to admit they love anything but competition.

Priya Nair·14 Feb·6 min

A Mexico City bar interior in warm amber light, two drinks untouched

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Queer: Guadagnino's Burroughs and the Case for Tenderness

Guadagnino's second film of 2024 was the quieter one, the one with the more difficult source material, and the one that has settled, a year later, as the more specifically strange.

Lena Ashworth·18 Sep·5 min