Last year, while accepting a Screen Actors Guild award for A Complete Unknown, Timothée Chalamet told the audience, "I want to be one of the greats; I'm inspired by the greats." Many criticized him ...

Going into Marty Supreme, I had high hopes. The reviews had been great for Timothee Chalamet’s new “sports” movie, and I am a fan of Josh Safdie’s work as a filmmaker. However, I didn’t expect to ...

There is something perversely admirable about a person who refuses to apologize for talent and looks at the ordinary life laid out before him and recoils as if being asked to settle for a lesser ...

In my last post, I highlighted some of the pitfalls of clout chasing and perfectionism exhibited in the character of Marty Mauser in the film Marty Supreme. Marty’s self-importance and lack of empathy ...

SPOILER ALERT: The following cultural commentary contains plot spoilers for the movie “Marty Supreme,” now playing in theaters. (RNS) — If certain films are paradigmatic of an era or a political ...

If you didn’t catch one of the biggest movies of the year in theaters on Christmas Day, you’re in luck. Marty Supreme, the ambitious table-tennis thriller starring Timothée Chalamet, will eventually ...

Like many of Josh Safdie's films, Marty Supreme is an immersion into the chaotic life of an obsessively ambitious character. And the last moments of the film certainly encapsulate the film's frantic ...

That last one is very much a specialty for filmmaker Josh Safdie, who, until recently, has teamed with his brother Benny Safdie on movies most recently including Good Time and Uncut Gems. His “heroes” ...

Timothée Chalamet’s new ping pong biopic just has the most successful opening weekend at the box office for A24, and it’s even eclipsed the domestic total of one of the studio’s biggest bombs of the ...

A few years ago, Sara Rossein was hunting around a thrift store and found the book The Money Player: The Confessions of America’s Greatest Table Tennis Champion and Hustler. Rossein figured the book — ...

Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme,” now in theaters, is filled with ‘80s bangers, including Tears for Fears’ “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” and Peter Gabriel’s “I Have the Touch.” But Safdie’s latest ...

Marty Reisman, the self-proclaimed “bad boy of table tennis,” was known for his eccentric and flamboyant style as well as his courtside showmanship. At home, though, he was a husband to his wife, ...