Zendaya’s new movie earns the star her best-ever Rotten Tomatoes score, beating her recent critical and commercial smash hit Dune: Part Two.
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Summary
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Challengers
earns Zendaya’s best Rotten Tomatoes rating with a Fresh score of 96%. - The movie beats her previous high of 93%.
- Zendaya has the potential to continue her strong Rotten Tomatoes streak with her next project.
Challengers has bested Dune: Part Two to become the best-performing Zendaya movie on Rotten Tomatoes. The upcoming movie is the latest release from director Luca Guadagnino, who has previously helmed titles including the Oscar-winning Call Me By Your Name and the 2018 remake of Suspiria. It follows the torrid love triangle that forms between three tennis players: former pro turned coach Tashi Duncan (Zendaya), her husband Art (Mike Faist), and Patrick (Josh O’Connor), her ex who was Art’s former best friend.
Rotten Tomatoes has now calculated an official critic score for the movie ahead of the Challengers release date. Although the score will fluctuate somewhat as more reviews are added, with 72 critics weighing in, the movie has earned a Fresh score of 96% at the time of writing. This is the highest score that a narrative feature starring Zendaya has ever earned, beating her previous record of 93%, a score earned by both her recent hit Dune: Part Two and 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home.
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Source: Rotten Tomatoes
Challengers
Challengers is a romantic sports comedy film by director Luca Guadagnino. The film stars Zendaya as a retired Tennis legend who, while trying to coach her husband and lead him to victory in an upcoming Tennis match, discovers his coming opponent is her ex-lover.
- Director
- Luca Guadagnino
- Release Date
- April 26, 2024
- Studio(s)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , Pascal Pictures
- Distributor(s)
- Amazon MGM Studios
- Writers
- Justin Kuritzkes
- Cast
- Zendaya , Josh O’Connor , Mike Faist