The Aisle Seat: Challengers Makes Tennis Sexy and Thrilling

Unusual take on a love triangle makes for a potent comedy-drama thanks to terrific filmmaking

Thomas Burchfield
Fanfare
Published in
6 min readMay 3, 2024

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(Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

The quality of this year’s film releases seems a little behind last year’s so far, but one sign of hope is Challengers, a new alt-romantic comedy-drama.

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