Marty Supreme

Do I even need to keep singing the praises of Timothee Chalamet? For all of the breathless praise he’s received for previous work (and it’s been well-earned), critics have been saying that this is the best performance of his young career. Chalamet plays a ping-pong hustler determined to take his talent straight to the top with all the confidence (and arrogance) that only a 20-something can manage. He leaps from one scheme to another with all the speed and insanity of Wiley Coyote, leading to a wild film that doesn’t feel anywhere near its 2.5 hour length, and manages to blend comedy, drama, tension, and action into a whirlwind of a ’50s period piece. It currently has a 93% Tomatometer on Rotten Tomatoes.

“The movies can be a wonderfully amoral medium, and I found myself liking Marty Mauser — and not just liking him, but actually rooting for him to succeed. It takes more than a good actor to pull that off. It takes one of the greats.” -Justin Chang, NPR
“Continuously barreling toward disaster. Until it doesn’t. If only roller coasters were this exciting.” -Dwight Brown, DwightBrownInk.com
“Josh Safdie’s film commands your attention, and in casting Chalamet, one of the most talented actors of his generation who turns in an undeniably gung-ho performance, Marty Supreme earns it.” -Wenlei Ma, The Nightly (AU)
“For all the trademark Safdie unease, Marty Supreme remains an enormously good time at the cinema. The 150 minutes speed by as we encounter an array of brilliantly cast cameos.” -Donald Clarke, Irish Times
“Chalamet is fantastic in this role. It may very well be his best work yet, in a career filled with excellent performances.” -Max Weiss, New York Magazine/Vulture
“Marty is vivacious, and the film around him is buzzing at the same frequency: itchy, anxious, yet unbearably exciting throughout, each minute defined by some hairpin plot turn.” -David Sims, The Atlantic
“For its entire two and a half hours — which whips past in what feels like mere minutes — Safdie’s film had me vibrating like a tuning fork. It’s a joyous salute to life’s beautiful cacophony.” -Robbie Collin, Daily Telegraph (UK)
“You have to be a hustler to make movies like this in the age of AI and IP, even ones with genuine movie stars in them. It’s in Safdie’s DNA as much as Marty’s. Both end up champions in their own way, and we’re the ones who end up winning.” -David Fear, Rolling Stone
“Pure lighting in a bottle that leaps boldly out of the starting gate and never slows down until it hits the finish line.” -Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News
“Marty Supreme is breakneck, it’s nerve wracking and it is above all entertaining as all get out.” -Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
“A proudly oddball period movie that boasts throwback elements but leans timeless in its unlikely hero’s journey.” -Brian Truitt, USA Today
“[Marty is] played by Chalamet in a delicious synergy of actor, role and whatever fairy dust makes a performance feel both preordained and magically fresh.” -Jocelyn Noveck, Associated Press
“Marty Supreme is a stunning achievement, a breathless yet precisely controlled joyride full of vivid characters, hairpin turns and did-that-just-happen moments — and a modernist fairy tale about big ambitions colliding with grubby street-level realities.” -Philip De Semlyen, Time Out

Marty Supreme opens at The Clyde on Friday, February 6, and plays Friday, Saturday & Monday at 7:30, plus Sunday at 2:00.