Zendaya, who plays the center point of a love triangle in “Challengers,” says its characters are “likable and charming — and terrible also.”
Here’s more on that film and other entertainment highlights this weekend →
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Film
Among the pleasures of Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers”? Despite its tears, tight jaws and fussy chronology, “the movie isn’t trying to say anything important, which is a relief. It wants to engage and entertain you, and it does that very nicely,” Manohla Dargis writes. It’s in theaters today.
Theater
Paula Vogel’s “Mother Play,” starring Jessica Lange as a matriarch who straddles the line between monstrous and piteous, “honors the dead by making them alive again and nurtures the living by providing a place to put a daughter’s love and rage,” our critic writes. The drama is at the Helen Hayes Theater.
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Video Games
“Some people are going to beat the final boss on their first try; some people are going to take a hundred tries,” Nick Kaman, the head of Aggro Crab, says of the studio’s new game, Another Crab’s Treasure, which he describes as DarkBob SoulsPants. It’s available on most major platforms now.
Streaming
Though the creepy-crawly French horror film “Infested” lacks “fresh ideas,” Sébastien Vanicek’s debut feature “scurries forward with such pep and purpose that its shortcomings are easily forgivable,” our critic writes. The movie is available to stream on Shudder today.
Comedy
Before seeing Jim Gaffigan in the Netflix film “Unfrosted,” which reimagines the origins of the Pop-Tart, you can catch him on his “Barely Alive Tour,” which stops at the Beacon Theater for a few days this weekend. The shows are among our picks for entertainment in New York City.
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Read our weekend roundup for more things to do in New York, or go to the Arts home page for the stories mentioned here and more.
