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Challengers (2024)

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.7
Challengers poster

Overview

Tennis player turned coach Tashi has taken her husband, Art, and transformed him into a world-famous Major champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she signs him up for a "Challenger" event — close to the lowest level of pro tournament — where he finds himself standing across the net from his former best friend and Tashi's former boyfriend.


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Bias Dimensions

Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Positive

Overview

Tennis player turned coach Tashi has taken her husband, Art, and transformed him into a world-famous Major champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she signs him up for a "Challenger" event — close to the lowest level of pro tournament — where he finds himself standing across the net from his former best friend and Tashi's former boyfriend.


Starring Cast


Where to watch

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Philo logoPhilo
Apple TV logoApple TV
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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Leans Progressive

Primary

The film's dominant themes align with progressive values through its subtle exploration and critique of power dynamics, gender archetypes, and racial politics, particularly colorism, in relationships and society.

The movie features visible diversity in its lead casting with a prominent Black actress. Its narrative, however, centers on personal ambition, rivalry, and complex relationships within the world of elite sports, without explicitly critiquing traditional identities or making DEI themes central to its plot.

Secondary

Challengers visually and dynamically portrays bisexual attraction and queer chemistry within its central trio, acknowledged by creators as queer subtext. While not explicitly addressed in dialogue, the film offers a complex and rare portrayal of queer relationships in mainstream cinema, exploring characters' desires with dignity and agency.

Challengers does not feature transsexual characters or themes within its narrative. The film focuses on a complex romantic and competitive triangle, exploring themes of queerness, bisexuality, and polyamory, but it does not engage with transsexual identity or community in its plot or character development.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

The film "Challengers" is an original story with characters created specifically for this production. There is no indication that it is an adaptation of pre-existing material or features historical figures whose gender was altered from a prior established canon.

The film "Challengers" is an original story, not an adaptation of pre-existing material with established character races. The characters' racial identities, including Tashi Duncan's, are established within this film, thus no race swap occurs.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

7.7

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
7.0
The Movie Database logo
6.9

Critic Ratings

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8.8
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8.2

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