I have a spot in my heart for intense sports movies. I also enjoy films that effectively incorporate flashbacks to flesh out the story and its characters. Luca Guadagnino’s (Bones and All, Call Me by Your Name) Challengers incorporated both themes into his sexual, taught, tension-filled drama, using professional tennis as its backdrop.
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The Greatest Showman (2017)
I’m not going to lie. The only reason I watched Michael Gracey’s The Greatest Showman was that it was the topic of one of the sermons at my church. Each year, we have a summer movie series (In 2018, the movies were Forrest Gump, Good Will Hunting, The Princess Bride, and The Shawshank Redemption. I had seen all four, of course, and watched all of them again before that week’s service to refamiliarize myself with each of these fantastic films. Then, on Labor Day weekend, we have our Family Weekend, where the church’s children sit with their caregivers rather than go to the classes they usually attend. We show a truncated movie version, and this year, it was The Greatest Showman. So, I added it to my Netflix queue. It arrived two days before my church service, and I watched it the night before. I’m usually not a fan of musicals, but I enjoyed The Greatest Showman and would consider watching it again one day.