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By the New York Times
THE CRITIC’S CHOICE
The highly anticipated novelty from director Luca Guadagnino (“Call Me Through Your Name”) follows three sneakers as they move between lovers, friends and foes. It stars Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist.
In our opinion:
The 3 protagonists of “Challengers” are very engaging and bring emotional and mental nuances to the story, regardless of the existing character setup. They’re also just plain fun to watch and part of the laugh of this movie. It’s watching pretty naked people turn relentlessly on each other, their muscles tense and piercing glances bouncing around. Guadagnino knows this; It’s here in its wheelhouse and you can feel its joy in its actors.
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Tehrans interact with a variety of cultural leaders in their lives – locating the right uniform for a girls’ school ceremony, applying for a work or driver’s license, logging a child’s call – and have to deal with the constraints of an authoritarian bureaucracy.
In our opinion:
Because the vignette is only a few minutes long and made up of Kafkaesque conversations that border on the absurd, “Earthworms” operates to cumulative effect. It is death through a thousand punctures, a succession of small indignities. Every probable and undeniable task is not only fraught with procedural irritations (bureaucracy to complete, appointments to fulfill, mundane queries to answer) but also fear. Suppose your response to a query about the regime may simply incriminate you, or there is no way to tell an official that it is not you. How would you live your life?
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This deadpan sex comedy directed, written and starring Joanna Arnow in her first feature film follows a woman ruled either in paintings or in BDSM films. None of these relationships are satisfying.
In our opinion:
Arnow films his own bare frame with the kind of candor we call brave because it needs to be more confrontational than exciting. It’s so visual that it takes a moment to realize that someone can be physically exposed and emotionally opaque.
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