Upcoming awards hopeful Marty Supreme is one hell of a film, but just not quite in the way I was expecting from this chaotic, white-knuckle ride of a movie.

Zooming through a matter of months in the life of aspiring ping-pong champion Marty Mauser – based loosely on US player Marty Reisman – at breakneck speed, it becomes evident pretty quickly that Marty Supreme is not at all a standard sports biopic.

It also becomes clear early on that Timothée Chalamet will be Oscar nominated for playing one of the most offensive pigs in cinema; he’s just received his fifth Golden Globe nomination for this. And rightfully so.

Marty Supreme – both the film, directed and co-written by Josh Safdie, and the character as portrayed by Chalamet (this is the name emblazoned on his customised ping-pong balls)

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