{"id":466763,"date":"2025-12-23T14:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/466763\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T14:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:29:14","slug":"marty-supreme-review-timothee-chalamet-serves-up-big-swagger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/466763\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Marty Supreme’ review: Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet serves up big swagger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A ping pong ball at top speed travels over 70 miles an hour \u2014 so fast it could zip across Manhattan in less than two minutes. Director Josh Safdie\u2019s<\/a> hyperactive, head-spinning \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d keeps pace. Set in 1952 New York, this deranged caper races after a money-grubbing table tennis hustler (he prefers \u201cprofessional athlete\u201d) named Marty Mauser (Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet<\/a>) who argues like he plays, swatting away protests and annoying his adversaries to exhaustion.<\/p>\n

Hounding his shoe-store co-worker to give him $700 from the safe, Marty hammers the poor sap with every trick he\u2019s got \u2014 emotional pressure, physical violence, bribery, humiliation, revenge \u2014 until he hits one that wins. The high-strung kid is pure nerve and he even looks like one, too; he\u2019s the embodiment of a twitch. But with a paddle in his hands, Marty turns into Gene Kelly in \u201cSingin in the Rain<\/a>.\u201d He could win a match swinging an umbrella.<\/p>\n

The character\u2019s inspiration is Marty Reisman<\/a>, one of the so-called \u201cbad boys of ping pong,\u201d according to a United States Table Tennis Association official in 1972, explaining why the rascal wasn\u2019t invited to the USA versus China exhibition games referred to as \u201cping pong diplomacy.\u201d<\/a> You may remember those matches from \u201cForrest Gump,\u201d<\/a> but Tom Hanks\u2019 guileless sweetheart would never use the sport to smuggle gold bars out of Hong Kong, as the real Reisman once did.<\/p>\n