N3V3RW00RLD’s review published on Letterboxd:
took my white boys to go see challengers and they loved it! I wanted more tennis on rewatch personally. I get it, the match is the tangential opus to the croon of their weakened empty lives, but Luca, you are really good at filming tennis. Like reeeeaaaalllllyyyy good. Good enough to know you need to be a bitch about it and tease us with the brief flashes of ball to ball consecration embroiling an eventual cathartic release from penance, but only 3 under the court shots? that shit was magic man! Like we see him place a pin in the shot when we see art bounce the ball a few times and we move on before coming back to an expanded undershot and moving on and then coming back a third time in rhythm to art and patrick jumping from under the court and it runs alongside the music and other lines of perspective in syncopation, holding the delicate expression in slow motion for brief rising action as levity. We are inching forward to the pace of back and forth points to eventually find the on court love and understanding that was pleaded to be "wrecked." The length of the the ending tie break is justified as a re-acknowledging of their actions translated to the language of the court, its a moment that can only be understood as an action of the court, Tashi's scream should tell you everything you need to know about the purpose of such a moment.