Zendaya's steamy tennis movie 挑戦者s エースs its critics' reviews as they 賞賛する film's 'sexy romantic triangle' and '性の 緊張'

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Zendaya's new film?挑戦者s has served up an エース with movie critics.

The movie 現在／一般に 持つ／拘留するs a 91% fresh 率ing on Rotten Tomatoes and was 賞賛するd for 存在 a '悪賢い, sexy, hugely entertaining tennis romantic triangle' by?Ty Burr from?The Washington 地位，任命する.??

一方／合間 the Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney 要約するd the film as 'Smart, seductive and bristling with 性の 緊張' 追加するing that '挑戦者s is arguably Luca Guadagnino's most 純粋に pleasurable film to date; it’s certainly his lightest and most playful.'?

In 挑戦者s, which is 始める，決める for 解放（する） on April 26, Zendaya's, 27, character - an aspiring tennis 星／主役にする Tashi Duncan - gives up her career after 苦しむing a major 傷害.

Instead, she 焦点（を合わせる）s on coaching her collea gue Art, played by マイク Faist, whom she 落ちるs in love with and marries.

Zendaya's new film 挑戦者s has served up an エース with movie critics who 賞賛するd it for its 'sexy romantic triangle'; Zendaya pictured with co-星／主役にするs?マイク Faist and?Josh O'Connor

But Tashi finds her feelings 危険に divided after Art is 入会させるd on the 挑戦者 小旅行する, where he 直面するs off against Tashi's ex-boyfriend Patrick, played by Josh O'Connor.

'The movie's a paean to hard work and hedonism, and if its 楽しみs are mostly surface ― grass, clay, emotional ― it's still been too long since we've had an intelligent frolic like this,' Burr 追加するd in his review.?

Amy Nicholson from The Los Angeles Times c alls it 'a 削減する, naughty, ferociously 井戸／弁護士席-行為／法令／行動するd trifle about characters more likely to scrawl something foul on a bathroom 立ち往生させる than 引用する Heraclitus.'

She 追加するs, 'Zendaya's 業績／成果 slices through the noise... She gets the funniest, meanest 復帰s and 持つ／拘留するs the 審査する like a woman in 命令（する）, even when she 許すs the film to leer.'

'It wants to engage and entertain you, and it does that very nicely,' Manohla Dargis of the New York Times?wrote about the film.?

Brian Truitt from USA Today?示唆するd that the movie, '落ちるs nebulously somewhere between a coming-of-age flick, dysfunctional 関係 演劇 and snazzy sports extravaganza, Guadagnino にもかかわらず 持つ／拘留するs serve with yet another engaging, hot-血d tale of 欠陥d humans 人物／姿／数字ing out their feelings.'?

'A funny, tempestuous, and exuberantly lusty story about how three 運動競技の demigods see their 運命s upended. And Guadagnino tells it the way he knows best, with a いつかs exasperating but 最終的に irresistible surfeit of style,' Justin Chang of the New Yorker wrote.

David Sims from The 大西洋 賞賛するd the film for 存在 'far more thrilling, and 勝利を得た, than a simple tale of someone 解除するing a トロフィー, or love 征服する／打ち勝つing all.'?

The movie 現在／一般に 持つ／拘留するs a 91% fresh 率ing on Rotten Tomatoes and was 賞賛するd for 存在 a '悪賢い, sexy, hugely entertaining tennis romantic triangle' by Ty Burr for The Washington 地位，任命する

'Smart, seductive and bristling with 性の 緊張' wrote Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney, 追加するing that '挑戦者s is arguably Luca Guadagnino's most 純粋に pleasurable film to date'

Amy Nicholson from The Los Angeles Times calls it 'a 削減する, naughty, ferociously 井戸／弁護士席-行為／法令／行動するd trifle'

In 挑戦者s Zendaya's character - an aspiring tennis 星／主役にする Tashi Duncan - gives up her career after 苦しむing a major 傷害. Instead, she 焦点（を合わせる）s on coaching her 同僚 Art, played by マイク Faist, whom she 落ちるs in love with and marries

But Tashi finds her feelings 危険に divided after Art is 入会させるd on the 挑戦者 小旅行する, where he 直面するs off against Tashi's ex-boyfriend Patrick

The New York 地位，任命する called 挑戦者s this year’s 'Saltburn' - a nod to Emerald Fennell's 2023 film famous for its shocking explicit scenes.?

'挑戦者s may not be this director’s most psychologically insightful movie―the characters can at times feel like chess-piece contrivances rather than fully 一連の会議、交渉／完成するd individuals―but it’s almost certainly his most entertaining and fastest-paced,'?予定する's?Dana Stevens wrote.?

'The 陰謀（を企てる） of 挑戦者s might sound stale, and yet, there’s an electric 誘発する to Guadagnino’s approach that elevates the 構成要素, （判決などを）下すing it fresh,' Peter Debruge from Variety?quipped.?

However, not all レスラーs impressed. Kyle Smith from the 塀で囲む Street 定期刊行物?penned, '[Luca Guadagnino] does his best to give 実体 to a thin, soapy story, but he relies so ひどく on gimmicks (several montages feature electronic dance music) that he starts to seem desperate.'?

一方／合間 Vulture's Angelica Jade Basti?n wrote, 'The 詳細（に述べる）s of these people’s lives and their interiorities are so thinly drawn they feel more like beautiful ideas 衝突，墜落ing into one another and leaving little messes that are too 平易な to clean up.'

一方／合間 Guadagnino 以前 賞賛するd Zendaya's talents, explaining she worked with tennis プロの／賛成の and former player Brad Gilbert to 準備する for the part.

Luca 噴出するd to Variety last October: 'She's wonderful. I mean, wow. We edited the movie and we almost 現実に don't use any of her 二塁打. She's so good.

He 追加するd that 'all three leads spent like three months working very hard―technically, athletically.'

Zendaya was 賞賛するd her for her chemistry with her co-星／主役にするs; seen with Josh and マイク on Wednesday in New York

挑戦者s is 始める，決める for 解放（する） on April 26

In a 最近の interview, Zendaya 認める that having an intimacy 調整者／コーディネーター on 始める，決める was 'very helpful,' and 賞賛するd them for keeping a '安全な' 環境 on 始める，決める.

'We had an intimacy 調整者／コーディネーター which was fantastic and very helpful, because it was important that we felt 安全な,' she told The Hollywood Reporter.

The film is suffused with '激しい' erotic scenes between Zendaya and her 主要な men, so the trio needed to find ways to decompress when they were on camera.

'I spoke with my 同僚s so that we could find a way to feel at 緩和する. We played tennis together, we went out together, we rehearsed together,' she 株d. 'We got to 社債 and feel good with each other.'