Gwyneth Paltrow<\/a>), who’s staying at his hotel. But instead of becoming a champ, Marty gets his butt kicked by deaf Japanese opponent Koto Endo (real-life player Koto Kawaguchi).<\/p>\nAfter fuming and throwing a trash can in the aftermath, Marty falls into a mental spiral. When he returns from a world tour with the Harlem Globetrotters as a halftime trick-shot artist, our foolish hero faces a series of challenges, starting with the fact that Marty\u2019s married childhood friend Rachel (a fabulous Odessa A\u2019zion) is about to have his baby. He also needs to scrounge up enough money to get to Tokyo and have a rematch with his rival Endo, which is easier said than done as his cons start to catch up with him.<\/p>\n
He gets chased by cops, swindles the wrong ping-pong goobers and becomes embroiled in a canine extortion scheme. Even his closest friends start to see how he’s a double-dealing menace.<\/p>\n
Like \u201cUncut Gems,\u201d Safdie\u2019s acclaimed film alongside brother Benny, \u201cMarty Supreme\u2019 is an exposed nerve of a sports movie. There’s anxiety to be had from Marty\u2019s various scams going terribly awry to the well-crafted, white-knuckle table tennis scenes. And thanks to Chalamet\u2019s raw charm and gumption, it\u2019s hard to stay out of his corner: You actually begin to root for the petulant Marty once he starts to act like a grown-up for a change.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Safdie has surrounded him with a strange yet stellar supporting cast. \u201cShark Tank\u201d businessman Kevin O\u2019Leary is surprisingly good as Kay\u2019s husband and Marty\u2019s ink business-mogul nemesis, while Tyler Okonma (aka hip-hop star Tyler, The Creator) matches Chalamet\u2019s magnetic energy as Marty\u2019s fellow hustler and best friend. Add in Fran Drescher, Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller fame) and NBA legend George Gervin, and this flick seems to be a raison d\u2019etre for that spiffy new casting Oscar.<\/p>\n
\u201cMarty\u201d is supremely stylistic, especially in its music. It inexplicably uses as much 1980s new wave as it does \u201850s sounds: Needle drops feature Tears for Fears and New Order as well as Fats Domino and Perry Como, with a side of Beethoven. (There\u2019s a scene involving a sperm with Marty\u2019s same competitive streak speeding to an egg set to Alphaville\u2019s \u201cForever Young.\u201d)<\/p>\n
The movie also touches on a changing postwar culture in which Marty is the cocky American looking to conquer the world and Endo becomes the national symbol for a Japan building back after the bomb. Their inevitable big rematch has some end-of-\u201cRocky IV\u201d vibes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sure, you’ll have to navigate several cinematic panic attacks, but \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d delivers a quintessential ping-pong movie cooler than anyone ever thought possible.<\/p>\n
Why is ‘Marty Supreme’ rated R?<\/p>\n
The ping-pong period epic “Marty Supreme,” starring Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet and Gwyneth Paltrow, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association<\/a> “for language throughout, sexual content, some violent content\/bloody images and nudity.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Playing a ping-pong standout with swag, Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet manages to top last year’s Oscar-nominated performance as Bob Dylan.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[448,449,64,63,199289,9771,27577,32904,45645,134,1972,322,456,15460,27578,14884,344,324,323,335,444,228,229,85271,199290,747,199288,40530,39,441],"class_list":["post-367501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-affiliate","tag-arts","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chalamet","tag-comedy","tag-comedy-films","tag-drama","tag-drama-films","tag-entertainment","tag-films","tag-local","tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","tag-movie","tag-movie-reference","tag-movie-reviews","tag-movies","tag-neutral","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-reference","tag-review","tag-reviews","tag-table","tag-table-tennis","tag-tennis","tag-timothee","tag-timothee-chalamet","tag-top-stories","tag-u0026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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