Feinberg doesn’t want to get into trouble so he says “many” find Chalamet’s titular character “repellent”. But deep down he’s saying the gals aren’t digging him.
Eleven weeks ago I called Marty Supreme “a primal knockout thing… entirely driven by Timothee Chalamet’s amoral, selfish, thoughtless, greedy-as-fuck young guy (but greedy for juice, triumph, acclaim and glory rather than money) who’s a serious go-getter, prick, thief, pusher and hustler, not to mention a gifted ping-pong athlete…a guy who never stops and never hesitates…okay, he acquires a little character and a couple of twinges of self-doubt toward the end, but ladies and germs and all the ships at sea…this is world–class cinema!…an alive, contentious and heavy-chugging run-around and hop-around fever dream that never lets you know what’ll happen next.”
For a while there the dynamic Chalamet looked like the presumptive Best Actor Oscar winner of 2026. And then more and more of the rank-and-file began to see it, and by this I mean more and more progressive feminists who kinda sorta hate guys anyway. They frowned and sniffed and shared their thumbs-down reactions around town…not just their disapproval of the obnoxiously self-consumed, intractably amoral Marty Supreme character but also, correspondingly, Chalamet himself because he’s so good at inhabiting this frenetic, appalling fellow.
HE review: “Chalamet constantly, compulsively, deplorably and always half-charmingly lies, takes, deceives, uses, goads, wounds, gives head, impregnates, insults, boasts, bullshits. And it’s not about morality or ‘story’ or even who wins the big climactic ping-pong match in Japan, this thing…well, it’s finally about shards of decency and morality toward the end, but Marty Supreme is primarily and gloriously about character…and that’s what’s exciting about it. Character, values (or lack of), choices. Coming aggressively from the gut.”
From Own. Gleiberman’s “The People Who Say Timothee Chalamet’s Marty Supreme Character Isn’t ‘Likable’ Sound Like Corrupt Studio Executives,” posted at 10:58 am on Saturday morning (1.3.26):
And here’s the payoff:
