Negative views of Challengers

What do they say when they don't like it?

They dwell on its chopped-up flashback structure and say it's hard to follow: I have said that. They say the catchy style and intense techno score are all that saves the plot from being "soap opera." Guadagnino and the writer "tell the story out of order, jumping around in time so often that it becomes tiresome, especially since there is so little forward-moving plot" - says Kyle Smith of Wall Street Journal