Great news! My massive eyeroll that started in 2016 — when Kent Jones, apropos of nothing, stopped in the middle of his intro for the NYFF special presentation of Jackie to ask for a round applause for Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize that’d been announced earlier that day — finally went full circle while watching this.
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Challengers 2024
Confirmatory viewing. I remain completely mystified by the love this is getting. That a film this poorly edited, featuring retrograde gender politics masquerading as an enlightened critique, scored by one of the most repetitious whiffs of a score by major composers, wasting the talents of an otherwise strong central cast, drawing to an infinitely dumb conclusion gets acclaim not in spite of those issues but largely as a celebration of those very attributes makes for a bigger outside-looking-in puzzlement from…
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