Marty Supreme

USA 2025, 150 minutes
Dir. Josh Safdie
English
Rating: [R13] Violence, sex scenes, offensive language, nudity & wound detail
Genres: Drama, Suspense/Crime

Topics: Sport, Period 1950s.

Feat. Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa Azion, Abel Ferrara, Fran Drescher

“A breakneck rollercoaster—about ping pong!—infused with a manic desperation that’s almost as electric as its athletic centerpieces are taut.”~The Daily Beast

Aroview: Timothée Chalamet and director Josh Safdie bring their A-game to this adrenalized tale of ruthless ambition that was nominated for nine Academy Awards and scored the biggest box-office success to date for its production studio, A24.

Chalamet plays a young hustler who determines to reign supreme at the table tennis world champs in 1952. He’s obsessed, selfish and narcissistic but possessed of a roguish charm that gets him what he wants, though not without endless Trouble. The director does tension with a capital T, here fleshing out the bones of a true story with two-bit criminal tropes and a complicated romance the way he did with ‘Good Time’ and ‘Uncut Gems’ (then with his co-directing brother, Benny). The sporting scenes especially give this a distinctive edge, matched by another cutting-edge soundtrack by Daniel Lopatin.