“Timothee Chalamet A Smash In Spectacular Screwball Ping-Pong Hellzapoppin'” — from Peter Bradshaw‘s 12.1.25 Guardian review:
“Marty Supreme’s Megawatt Personality,” Richard Brody, The New Yorker — 12.19:
“In Josh Safdie’s hectic new film, Timothée Chalamet plays a gifted ping-pong player who’s also a born performer.
“Though Marty Supreme is based (albeit loosely) on the true story of someone else’s life, it’s Safdie’s most personal film to date. It’s one of the very few movies that dramatize — hyperbolically, comedically, even mockingly, yet optimistically — the boldness unto folly of a young fanatic turning ambition into reality.
“I’m not, of course, suggesting that Safdie or Bronstein has ever done anything Marty-like—lied, cheated, threatened, insulted, seduced, betrayed, stolen, clobbered, been clobbered, or endangered others in pursuit of their art—but that, in imagining Marty, they’ve successfully extrapolated from the mind–bending extremes of energy and will that themovie life demands.
“Safdie, like Marty, bet on himself, starting with D.I.Y. filmmaking, and advancing through a decade-plus of critically acclaimed movies on the industry’s periphery. Now, with Marty Supreme, he’s in reach of the brass ring, even as he self-deprecatingly admits what it feels like to have fought his way there.”