“Marty Supreme: Made in America” is the legend inscribed on the orange spheres that wannabe sporting hero Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet) plans to take to market as a snazzy alternative to plain old white ping-pong balls. Well, director and co-writer (with Ronald Bronstein) Josh Safdie has here made a great American picture.

Set in the early ’50s and loosely inspired by real-life table-tennis player Marty Reisman, Marty Supreme takes themes of big business, national pride and identity, the American Dream, ethnicity, class, privilege and power, and serves them with speed and spin. Two-and-a-half hours streak by in a blur of overlapping dialogue, serrated cutting and sweaty close-ups, as Marty first establishes his credentials at the British Open and then sets his sights on the World Cha

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