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The Current Cinema

Love Means Nothing in Tennis but Everything in “Challengers”

Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist sustain a three-way rally of romance in Luca Guadagnino’s almost absurdly sexy sports film.

ByJustin Chang

A child lies on the floor of a home with his head resting on his hands.

The Current Cinema

American Confinement in “We Grown Now” and “Stress Positions”

A crisis turns home into a place of constraint in two new independent features.

ByJustin Chang

Screening Room

Flirtation and Confrontation in “Sparring Partner”

In J. J. Kandel’s short film, the lunch-break banter of a flirtatious pair of co-workers, played by Cecily Strong and KeiLyn Durrel Jones, gives way to uncomfortable revelations.

Film byJ. J. Kandel

Text byLauren Elyse Garcia

Two photographers in press helmets with a gun in the foreground.

The Front Row

“Civil War” Is a Tale of Bad News

Alex Garland’s grim political fantasy about secession and violence revolves around a war photographer but has little to say about the making and consumption of news images.

ByRichard Brody

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