Marty Supreme review: unstoppable Timothée Chalamet smashes his way to likely Oscars victory

Review at a glance

The last major player to enter the arena smashes their way onto the Oscars podium with the brazen guile of a contender so high on their own myth that any number of battles after another or wicked things that come their way couldn’t possibly stop them.

It’s not Josh Safdie ’s “sports comedy-drama” (as Wikipedia laughably, misleadingly called it) itself that’s barnstorming a path to victory, although it is a riot of muscular film-making that will surely swing a best picture nomination.

We’re talking Timothée Chalamet , or rather his delirious transformation into cocksure narcissist Marty Mauser – ping-pong legend in waiting, hustler, woman-slayer and then some – who comes to the table all bats blazing (although they call them “paddles” in the States).

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