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Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet in “Marty Supreme.” (A24) <\/p>\nLOS ANGELES, CA \u2014 Josh Safdie\u2019s \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d is an alchemy of sweat and myth, a film where the neon pulse of a restless city meets the inner blaze of a rapscallion who refuses to dim. It\u2019s a story of hustle as ritual, ambition as obsession, anchored by Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet\u2019s riveting performance. What emerges is a portrait of grandeur fraying at the edges \u2014 a pursuit of excellence, by hook or by crook.<\/p>\n
With the nocturnal sprint of \u201cGood Time\u201d and the pressure\u2011cooker tragedy of \u201cUncut Gems,\u201d Josh Safdie, alongside his brother Benny, has carved out a cinematic terrain built on urban desperation, hustler psychology, and high\u2011velocity momentum. \u201cMarty Supreme,\u201d his first solo film in years, hits that same landscape hard, following a protagonist who runs on improvisation, instinct, and delusion \u2014 a young man barreling ahead like there’s no tomorrow.<\/p>\n
That young man is Marty Mauser (Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet): a table\u2011tennis prodigy, a live wire, a dreamer of greatness betting that one more gamble might tilt the world in his favor. Perilous. Thrilling. Frantic. Calm. All for the sake of winning.<\/p>\n
Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet in “Marty Supreme.” (A24) <\/p>\n
Loosely inspired by the life of ping-pong icon Marty Reisman, the 1958 and 1960 U.S. men\u2019s singles champion, the film drops Marty into 1950s Lower East Side New York. He hustles through it all \u2014 Queens rec rooms, Chinatown gambling dens, Midtown social clubs \u2014 grinding through a maze of back\u2011room tables and smoke\u2011thick clubs. A street\u2011smart sweet\u2011talker, he\u2019s as restless as the city that never sleeps: energy infectious, charm beguiling. He thrives on the edge, seducing a fading movie star (Gwyneth Paltrow) married to an influential, wealthy man (Kevin O\u2019Leary), while crossing paths with a grizzled fixer played by Abel Ferrara.<\/p>\n
His goal? To scrape together enough cash for a plane ticket to the world ping\u2011pong championship in Japan. Neither his domineering mother (Fran Drescher) nor his patient girlfriend (Odessa A\u2019Zion) can stop him. Yet his fiercest competitor is himself. What begins as an elusive dream twists into a spiral of near self\u2011destruction.<\/p>\n
Chalamet delivers one of his most grounded performances in years. He plays Marty with kinetic desperation, fusing fragility with bravado \u2014 panic simmering beneath the swagger, genius constantly sabotaged by impulse. Each slingback and forehand lands with scorching intensity, his body a bundle of jittery footwork, coiled shoulders, and eyes darting like they\u2019re tracking a ball only he can see. <\/p>\n
Surrounding him is a cast buzzing with unrelenting verve: Paltrow\u2019s faded\u2011star melancholy, O\u2019Leary\u2019s cool authority, A\u2019Zion\u2019s steady warmth, Drescher\u2019s sharp\u2011tongued fire, and Ferrara\u2019s downtown grit. Together, they lend gravitas to Marty\u2019s chaos.<\/p>\n
Gwyneth Paltrow in “Marty Supreme.” (A24) <\/p>\n
Safdie directs \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d with the hard\u2011edged focus that has defined his work. The screenplay, co\u2011written with longtime collaborator Ronald Bronstein, is taut and fast, stripped of sentiment. Safdie\u2019s camera moves with feral precision, tracking Marty\u2019s tumultuous journey with unvarnished immediacy \u2014 raw, frenetic and tense \u2014 grounding a world pulsing with danger and hustle.<\/p>\n
For all its brilliance, the film occasionally falters under the weight of its relentless pacing, its breathless momentum leaving certain narrative threads underdeveloped \u2014 particularly as the third act rushes toward resolution.<\/p>\n
Still, \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d remains a ferocious, tightly crafted character study that captures the thrill and cost of living life at full tilt \u2014 a white\u2011knuckling plunge anchored by Chalamet\u2019s electric performance and Safdie\u2019s gritty, high\u2011velocity filmmaking. Like Marty himself, the film\u2019s high\u2011wire ambition is inseparable from the moments where it wobbles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES, CA \u2014 Josh Safdie\u2019s \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d is an alchemy of sweat and myth, a film where…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":475567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-475566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115793242078526232","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}