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Luca Guadagnino is the star of the show, managing to balance a world of tennis, dance music, romance, and how we choose to live. Zendaya is a very close second.

Thoroughly engaging sequences of tennis intermingled with stories of our actors raise the stakes, all leading up to our climax at the very end of the film.

You may know hot moments await in Challengers, but surprising is the whipping emotional journey where you're never clear about whose decisions you support.

However, the flashy flashbacks and time jumps force us to make assumptions about the character's thoughts, their actions walking a fine line of untruth. But I suppose our trio is also walking a line.

Once again, Shyamalan proves his films are now entirely hit or miss. Knock at the Cabin is a solid hit. The film quite effectively wraps the audience in its tension and suspense, leaving the rest of the story behind along the way. In particular, this is very linear storytelling, which actually works quite well given the script's simple premise. In what seems like an attempt to elevate this film, social commentary about being homosexual is sprinkled throughout. While effective at connecting the audience to our protagonists, the story eventually abandons certain plot points that leave you wondering as to their inclusion.

As far as sequels go, this is pretty darn good. It manages to further the lore of the Avatar franchise and setup further movies that, if done correctly, could be quite good. An absolute technical achievement - nothing has looked quite as good or been as immersive as The Way of Water. The story is absolutely derivative in nature, but what story isn't? Looking past this allows the audience to take in the messages of the film, in particular, its environmental call for humanity to reflect on. A story of fathers, sons, and family, it does what Empire Strikes Back did for Star Wars: it builds a future for the franchise.