Marty Supreme (2025) delivers everything it promises and more. It’s one of the more entertaining films I’ve seen in a long time, and a truly fun film that keeps your attention.
Josh Safdie directs Marty Supreme (2025). His brother Benny Safdie directed The Smashing Machine, and the two co-directed Uncut Gems and Good Time. The two brothers separated, and both made a movie in 2025. Well, The Smashing Machine wasn’t a bad film, but Marty Supreme (2025) is so much better in my opinion.
Marty Supreme (2025) also feels a lot more like Good Time and Uncut Gems. In fact, it feels a lot like Uncut Gems, but there are enough changes that it’s not the same thing. Being based in the 50’s helps that a lot.
Marty Supreme (2025) is like an uncut gem, entertaining from start to finish. That’s definitely a monumental task because the movie is 2 1/2 hours long. It’s pretty dang hard for a film to be entertaining that entire time, but this movie definitely does that. I love it when movies do that because it keeps you on the edge of your seat, and you forget about everything else in the world for its runtime.
It reminded me of Uncut Gems in that regard, but this film is slightly longer, so that made it even more interesting.
Marty Supreme (2025) is about a character named Marty, played by Timothée Chalamet. He’s a super-energetic, loudmouthed ping-pong player from New York in the 1950s. Timothée Chalamet gives his best performance yet, which is saying a lot because I thought he was incredible in both Dune movies.
But this truly was a performance for the ages, as he was really able to show just about every emotion he possibly could. His interactions with the different characters in the movie really help you get to know him by the end of Marty Supreme (2025).
The whole cast is great in this film. Marty has Gwyneth Paltrow doing a great job playing a sleazy, aging actress. Tyler, the Creator, appears in this film as Wally, best buds with Marty, and both are a bunch of street rats who run all kinds of scams in the city. I don’t think there was a bad performance in the entire movie. All the characters felt real and like people you could run into at any point in your life and might already have.
The music is also incredible in this film, as Daniel Lopatin is doing it. He did Good Time and Uncut Gems as well, so the score is similar to those films in that regard. The score has a similar vibe to Risky Business, if you’ve seen it. I kind of like the 80s style. Even though it’s set in the 50s, it’s also a pretty good combo in Marty Supreme (2025).
There are also some great music choices in the film, as well, when it comes to needle drops. Not giving away the ending, the final song they use is one of my favorite 80s songs, and I was glad to see it in the film. There wasn’t a bad song in the film, and the way the music elevates scenes is truly magical.
The movie does such a great job of keeping you on the edge of your seat.
I believe I only got up once during the film. So many movies nowadays don’t deserve to be as long as they are, but this movie definitely does because we get to see so many sides of this character, and it’s so freaking entertaining.
It’s got the sides of a Martin Scorsese film, where you’re just constantly being bombarded with crazy stuff happening left and right. It’s not as life-or-death as Uncut Gems is. So in that regard, it can be a little bit more humorous, as the character is not about to get shot or seconds away from death like Adam Sandler’s character was in Uncut Gems.
Those moments still happen in this movie, but there are far fewer, and the circumstances can even be laughed at a little in Marty Supreme (2025). I think Marty’s character is so interesting because he is obviously a narcissist and not a good person by any means. But he is so entertaining to watch.
I think that’s a difference between characters, movies, and people in real life.
We will watch people whom we would never want to see in real life and be thoroughly entertained by them. It’s a pretty interesting dilemma. By the end of Marty Supreme (2025), Marty does turn into a different kind of character, and one that you might actually not mind being around.
I am a fan of playing Ping-Pong, but seeing it in the film like this was really cool. I got really into the competition scenes. You get really into the sport of it, like with Challengers. I felt glued to the screen during the ping-pong matches in the movie.
It takes something you might not think is very intense and turns it into just that. They were also really playing it, as I saw in Marty Supreme (2025); it looked very real and very intense. It made me want to go play right after I watched the movie.
So far, Marty Supreme (2025) has received numerous Golden Globe nominations, and I hope this continues into the Oscars as well. Everyone in this movie did such a great job, and I really hope they get the nominations they deserve. Odessa A’Zion was very good as Rachel, whom Marty seems to care about the most out of his group of friends and lovers.
There are a lot of first-time and newcomer actors and actresses in the film as well.
I hope they get the nominations and the recognition they deserve. The Oscars usually nominate differently from the Golden Globes, and it seems they do so on purpose, so hopefully they don’t miss Marty Supreme (2025), as it’s definitely on many people’s top films of 2025.
I think anyone looking for an entertaining and extremely stressful movie would love Marty Supreme (2025). This one is probably at the top of that style. I use “stressful” in a different sense: you’re not going to be stressed in a bad way, but rather invested in what’s going on and what’s going to happen.
It’s not a bad form of stress like some movies are, or where you don’t want to watch it because it’s so hard to get through. This movie has plenty of funny moments that keep it from getting too stressful or too hard to watch.
