This week, Good Film Hunting puts some serious spin on Marty Supreme, Josh Safdie’s high-energy 1950s-set hustler saga starring Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Odessa A’zion. Chalamet plays Marty Mauser, a swaggering young table tennis phenom chasing greatness, money, and legitimacy in a world that barely knows what to do with him. The real question is: does Marty Supreme paddle its way to glory, or is this one just a lot of hype with no return on serve?
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Release Details
- Title: Marty Supreme
- Year: 2025
- Director: Josh Safdie
- Writer(s): Josh Safdie, Ronald Bronstein
- Top Billed Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A’zion, Tyler Okonma, Fran Drescher
- Running Time: 150 minutes
- Country of Origin: United States
- Official Release Date(s): Premiered at the New York Film Festival on October 6, 2025; U.S. theatrical release on December 25, 2025 via A24.
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Josh Safdie (Director): Best known for Uncut Gems and Good Time, Safdie brings that same manic, immersive energy here, but on a larger and more polished canvas. Marty Supreme looks like an evolution rather than a repeat.
Ronald Bronstein (Writer): A longtime Safdie collaborator whose work on films like Uncut Gems and Heaven Knows What helped define that nervy, abrasive style. His involvement is a clue that this movie’s chaos is highly intentional.
Timothée Chalamet: By the time of Marty Supreme, he was already carrying prestige and blockbuster weight through films like Dune and Wonka. This role matters because it lets him channel charisma into someone far messier and more self-invented than a standard heroic lead.
Gwyneth Paltrow: Her presence gives the film added curiosity value, since she has kept a relatively selective screen profile in recent years. In a Safdie world, that kind of casting instantly reads as deliberate rather than nostalgic.
Odessa A’zion: Known to many viewers from genre and youth-skewing work like Hellraiser, her inclusion signals the film is also tapping into newer screen energy, not just legacy-star oddity.
Tyler Okonma (Tyler, the Creator): His casting fits the film’s outsider-showman vibe perfectly. Like Chalamet, he adds a sense that the movie wants cultural electricity, not just awards-season respectability.