{"id":2183281,"date":"2025-12-01T20:17:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2183281"},"modified":"2025-12-01T20:17:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:17:51","slug":"marty-supreme-review-timothee-chalamet-wins-in-the-best-movie-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/marty-supreme-review-timothee-chalamet-wins-in-the-best-movie-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Marty Supreme&#8217; review: Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet wins in the best movie of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F12%2Fmarty-supreme-116516093.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--review alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n\t\t<span class=\"inline-module--review__eyebrow subsection-heading-semi__label\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tmovie review\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 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Rated R (language throughout, sexual content, some violent content\/bloody images and nudity). In theaters Dec. 19.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ping pong tends to be grouped with smaller, niche sports like bowling and badminton; built for basements and ESPN3 at 2 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But tiny table tennis is part of one big piledriver of a movie called \u201cMarty Supreme,\u201d starring a career-best Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s cinematic Mountain Dew. You\u2019ll be wired for the entire two and a half hours.<\/p>\n<p>Not only does his striving New York paddler Marty Mauser exhilaratingly beat the bejesus out of little plastic balls. Bones break, tempers flare, there\u2019s sex, police chases and a whoopsie incineration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet for all the coursing adrenaline and cortisol that immediately bring to mind writer-director Josh Safdie\u2019s previous breakneck film, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/12\/09\/uncut-gems-review-adam-sandler-is-brilliant\/\">\u201cUncut Gems\u201d with Adam Sandler<\/a>, \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d is also a charmer and a shameless flirt.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--more inline-module--columnist inline-module--more--thirds\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h2 class=\"inline-module__heading subsection-heading subsection-heading--single-line \">\n\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"subsection-heading__sub\">Johnny Oleksinski<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It makes you laugh hard and often, and even blush a bit. There\u2019s ample heart and passion in Marty\u2019s messy race to the top. And the 1950s Big Apple ensemble is so authentic it\u2019s as if the filmmakers kidnapped a downtown deli.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What a winner \u201cMarty Supreme: is. Safdie, his team and especially his ace star are serving the best movie of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The speed-demon film follows the 2025 trend of sports flicks that aren\u2019t really sports flicks, including \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/05\/entertainment\/christy-review-sydney-sweeney-is-a-knockout-as-a-coal-miners-boxer\/\">Christy<\/a>\u201d with Sydney Sweeney and Benny Safdie\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/09\/entertainment\/dwayne-the-rock-johnson-guns-for-oscar-in-sleepy-mma-movie\/\">Smashing Machine<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This story, however, is fictional \u2014 although the title character is loosely inspired by ping pong champ Marty Reisman. So it\u2019s not burdened by the familiar and dusty path of biopics. The zigzagging plot is wildly unpredictable.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet gives a career-best performance in \u201cMarty Supreme.\u201d <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So is the brilliant Chalamet. His neurotic, uncomfortably direct, \u201cFake it till you make it\u201d Marty is right up there with Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s fraudster in \u201cCatch Me If You Can,\u201d only with the danger of Matt Damon\u2019s Tom in \u201cThe Talented Mr. Ripley.\u201d He has a hint of bogus heiress Anna Delvey to him. It\u2019s a sensational, next-level performance.  <\/p>\n<p>Spitfire Marty is actually among the world\u2019s best table tennis players from the start. Even so, as the sport is exploding in popularity in Japan, it earns crickets Stateside. He makes zilch doing what he\u2019s best at, and works in his uncle\u2019s shoe store to get by. But it\u2019s not enough.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To bankroll his lofty dreams, he\u2019s forced to lie, coerce, threaten, schmooze and sneak his way to hopefully becoming the Michael Jordan of table tennis.<\/p>\n<p>And he won\u2019t let anyone or anything disturb his plan, including people he ostensibly loves. There\u2019s Rachel, the married woman he\u2019s sleeping with, stunningly played by Odessa A\u2019Zion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Marty gets involved with Kay (Gwyneth Paltrow). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Later, the unibrowed Casanova gets involved with Kay Stone, the married starlet he\u2019s, um, also sleeping with, who Gwyneth Paltrow lends Hollywood gravitas, curiosity and that unmistakable Goop sternness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Safdie has really ingeniously cast this thing. There are plenty of famous faces with Five Boroughs credi, such as Fran Drescher as Marty\u2019s mom and Sandra Bernhard as her sister. Blink and you\u2019ll miss David Mamet as a Broadway director.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s cool is that Safdie has also creatively snapped up non-actors who are all ideal for larger-than-life New Yorkers. Billionaire Gristedes owner John Catsimatidis is \u2014 I kid you not \u2014 a revelation as Marty\u2019s best friend\u2019s annoyed dad.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And \u201cShark Tank\u201d\u2019s Kevin O\u2019Leary makes a memorably snarling villain as Milton Rockwell, a pen manufacturer CEO that offers Marty the chance to sell out for big bucks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For expert dribbling, Safdie has real basketball players Tracy McGrady and Kemba Walker play Harlem Globetrotters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Marty travels all over the world playing ping pong.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the subject of globetrotting, for a ping pong player, Marty jet-sets like he\u2019s James Bond. The film goes from the Lower East Side, to the Ritz in London, to a Parisian cafe and a Tokyo amphitheater. Ambition reigns supreme.<\/p>\n<p>One of Safdie\u2019s most inspired flourishes, though, is his incongruous use of 1980s music in a 1950s movie. There\u2019s no soothing \u201cEarth Angel\u201d or jukebox \u201cTutti Frutti\u201d here. Instead we get \u201cForever Young\u201d and Tears For Fears.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s still nostalgic, for sure, but in a completely different way. Those sounds perfectly evoke John Hughes, \u201cFerris Bueller,\u201d \u201cThe Breakfast Club\u201d and fond memories of teenage rebellion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Spot on.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>While set in the 1950s, the soundtrack of \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d is largely from the 1980s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Because, at its core,\u00a0\u201cMarty Supreme\u201d is a film about youth, and how dumb, impulsive and euphoric it can be. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, there\u2019s more to the message than recklessness rules. In the end, Marty faces facts that carefree, consequences-be-damned spontaneity has an expiration date. It stops being cute. Chalamet\u2019s last shot brought me back to his breakout role in \u201cCall Me By Your Name\u201d just seven years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Last year at the SAG Awards, the star gave a controversial victory speech in which he boldly announced, \u201cI want to be one of the greats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Really, Chalamet is a dreamer a lot like Marty. Only there is one important difference. As is obvious from this extraordinary movie, he\u2019s well on his way to making it happen for real.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>movie review MARTY SUPREME Running time: 150 minutes. Rated R (language throughout, sexual content, some violent content\/bloody images and nudity). In theaters Dec. 19. 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