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\"\"Marty Supreme<\/strong> (2025)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A24\/Comedy-Drama\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 150 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language throughout, sexual content, some violent content\/bloody images, nudity)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Josh Safdie\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Daniel Lopatin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Darius Khondji\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: December 25, 2025 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Timothee Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A\u2019zion, Kevin O\u2019Leary, Tyler Okonma, Abel Ferrara, Fran Drescher, Sandra Bernhard, Luke Manley, John Catsimatidis, Isaac Mizrahi, Emory Cohen, Geza Rohrig, Larry \u201cRatso\u201d Sloman, Ralph Colucci, Koto Kawaguchi, Pico Iyer, George Gervin, Ted Williams, Penn Jillette, David Mamet, Fred Hechinger.<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ****<\/p>\n

\u00a0The Safdie Brothers make movies about losers destined to always be losers. Try as they might, their protagonists just can\u2019t catch a break. They consistently make bad choices. It\u2019s their nature. The Safdies don\u2019t always like their protagonists, but they treat them sympathetically even when they\u2019re at their worst.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Josh Safdie goes solo for the first time with Marty Supreme<\/strong>, a darkly funny sports drama set in the cutthroat world of table tennis circa 1952. Marty Mauser (Chalamet, A Complete Unknown), a young Jewish man from New York City, has big dreams of winning a major table tennis competition in London. Unfortunately, success doesn\u2019t appear to be in the cards for the guy. He easily beats the reigning champ, but loses to an opponent from Japan (Kawaguchi). Marty spends the rest of the movie trying to get to Tokyo for a rematch in the World Championship.<\/p>\n

\u00a0What Marty goes through over the course of the film\u2019s 150 minutes brings to mind Dante\u2019s journey through the nine circles of Hell. It starts with his uncle (author Sloman), also his boss at the shoe store where he works, not giving him the money he promised him for his trip to London. He has to resort to criminal measures to obtain the funds. Later, he cajoles a rich businessman (comedian O\u2019Leary) in an attempt to get him to back him, but blows it when he insults the guy. He ends up having an affair with his wife (Paltrow, The Royal Tenenbaums) instead. Marty has a real knack for sabotaging himself.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Marty also has to deal with an overbearing mother (Drescher, The Nanny) and the childhood friend (A\u2019zion, Until Dawn) he knocks up after a quickie behind her loutish husband\u2019s (Cohen, Brooklyn) back. There\u2019s a situation involving a dog owned by a mysterious but clearly dangerous man (director Ferrara) Marty meets at a fleabag hotel. How they meet you need to see for yourself. Where it leads is just as crazy. It\u2019s the result of more bad choices and just plain bad luck.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Although set in the 50s, Marty Supreme<\/strong> feels more like something from the 70s with a main character who hardly ever stops moving. It\u2019s a propulsive piece with a jittery quality that will surely leave the viewer feeling disoriented. Safdie sweetens the pot by adding needle drops of songs from the 80s by the likes of Alphaville (\u201cForever Young\u201d), Public Image Ltd. (\u201cThe Order of Death\u201d) and Tears for Fears (\u201cEverybody Wants to Rule the World\u201d). This temporal displacement extends to Marty who\u2019s like a yuppie businessman from the 80s transported to the 50s. He talks and fast-talks his way through verbal exchanges without stopping to think before he opens his mouth. This typically gets him deeper into the hot water he\u2019s already in.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I was really rooting for Chalamet to win Best Actor last year for his flawless performance as Bob Dylan in the biopic A Complete Unknown. He lost to Adrian Brody for The Brutalist, a terrific film that everybody stopped talking about months ago. I sincerely hope he gets another shot at the gold with what he does in Marty Supreme<\/strong>. He plays a character impossible to like, a cocky little big shot with more confidence than sense, a guy who sees other people only as a means to achieve his own ends. Marty wants to be the ping pong champ and will stop at nothing to attain his goal, not even when the universe not at all subtly conspires against him, sometimes in darkly hilarious ways. He burns bridges with so many people yet finds ways to get back across when he needs to. He\u2019s a total SOB yet you can\u2019t help but root for him anyway. You want him to succeed just a little.<\/p>\n

\u00a0It\u2019s been a while since we\u2019ve seen Paltrow outside the MCU. You might say Marty Supreme<\/strong> is a comeback film of sorts for her. Oddly enough, she plays a has-been actress attempting a comeback even though hardly anybody remembers her. Her character is a woman who needs to be loved and she\u2019ll take whatever she can get whether it\u2019s from a hand-picked audience or some insignificant individual trying to make everybody believe his own hype. A\u2019zion, also deserving of an Oscar, knocks it out of the park as Rachel, a spirited girl from the same surroundings as Marty. She knows him better than anybody and should be immune to his BS, but she\u2019s blinded by her love for him and will do anything to help him. If there were ever two people who were so right for each other.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Marty Supreme<\/strong> moves along with an energy not found in too many films outside the Martin Scorsese oeuvre. It has this hyper-caffeinated feel like it\u2019s hopped up on cocaine. Safdie is largely responsible, but he didn\u2019t do it alone. He\u2019s aided by a pulsating score from Daniel Lopatin which, at times, is reminiscent of Tangerine Dream, and jumpy cinematography from Darius Khondji. Like the antihero at its center, the film is in constant motion. It\u2019s funny, riveting, frustrating and satisfying. It\u2019s also one of the year\u2019s best films. \"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marty Supreme (2025)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A24\/Comedy-Drama\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 150 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language throughout, sexual content, some violent content\/bloody images, nudity)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Josh Safdie\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Daniel Lopatin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Darius Khondji\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: December 25, 2025 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Timothee Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A\u2019zion, Kevin O\u2019Leary, Tyler Okonma, Abel Ferrara, Fran Drescher, Sandra […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dramas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Marty-Supreme-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13713,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13710\/revisions\/13713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}