Marty Supreme 2025
Josh Safdie's first solo feature (co-written and co-edited with Ronald Bronstein, shot by Darius Khondji, scored by Daniel Lopatin) casts Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser, a fast-talking 1950s New York table-tennis hustler loosely based on ping-pong legend Marty Reisman. Both hosts love it (it was No. 2 on Amanda's movies-of-the-year list) and read it as an Uncut Gems companion that, by going period, turns the Safdie anxiety into something more fable-like and open-hearted: a movie about ambition, confidence, and growing up that ends on the birth of Marty's son. They single out Chalamet (Pacino/Ad-Rock energy), a shockingly good Kevin O'Leary as pen magnate Milton, Gwyneth Paltrow as faded movie star Kay Stone, Odessa A'zion as Rachel, and Abel Ferrara, Fran Drescher, Tyler the Creator, and Penn Jillette in the deep bench. The 1950s setting runs on 1980s needle drops: Forever Young over the opening credits, Everybody Wants to Rule the World over the ending. They walk through the box-office stakes for an expensive A24 original (tracking 36-57 domestic) and its Oscar odds: Best Picture and Chalamet likely, score a must, directing a long shot in a crowded field.
