movie review

MARTY SUPREME

Running time: 150 minutes. Rated R (language throughout, sexual content, some violent content/bloody images and nudity). In theaters Dec. 19.

Ping pong tends to be grouped with smaller, niche sports like bowling and badminton; built for basements and ESPN3 at 2 a.m.

But tiny table tennis is part of one big piledriver of a movie called “Marty Supreme,” starring a career-best Timothée Chalamet.

It’s cinematic Mountain Dew. You’ll be wired for the entire two and a half hours.

Not only does his striving New York paddler Marty Mauser exhilaratingly beat the bejesus out of little plastic balls. Bones break, tempers flare, there’s sex, police chases and a whoopsie incineration.

Yet for all the coursing adrenaline and cortisol that immediately bring to mind writer

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