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Everybody wants to win. He wants the world. MARTY SUPREME, a Josh Safdie film starring Timothée Chalamet. In theaters this Christmas.

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Players, On and Off the Court: A New York State of Play

In the same way Coi Leray’s “players girl” mantra in Players (DJ Saige Remix) ft. Busta Rhymes reframes confidence as something anyone can claim, Marty Supreme taps into that same spirit of democratized hustle — not just for nightlife queens and city strutters, but for every woman stepping up to the ping‑pong table with the same fire as Marty. The film’s New York pulse mirrors the remix’s swagger: a world where ambition isn’t gendered, talent isn’t gatekept, and the game — whether in music or ping‑pong — belongs to anyone bold enough to play.

🎶 🗽 🔥 🏓 🎬 🚆 ✨ 🎭 💥 📍 🕍 ⚡ 🌆 💫 🔊 Players (DJ Saige Remix) - Coi Leray ft. Busta Rhymes

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“In New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of — there’s nothing you can’t do.” — Alicia Keys

Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme channels that very promise — the rush, the grit, the impossible ambition — and turns it into a kinetic, big‑hearted portrait of a young man determined to bend fate to his will. Set in the buzzing Jewish Lower East Side of the 1950s, the film follows Marty Mauser, played with dazzling precision by Timothée Chalamet, as he charges through life with the conviction that he’s destined to become the world ping‑pong champion.

🚆 A New York dreamer who refuses to slow down

Marty is a nobody on paper — a shoe‑store employee with more swagger than money — but Safdie films him like a comet. Inspired loosely by real‑life table‑tennis icon Marty Reisman, the story isn’t a biopic so much as a celebration of momentum. Marty runs, hustles, seduces, improvises, and reinvents himself at every turn, convinced that destiny is something you grab, not something you wait for.

⚡ Timothée Chalamet’s electric performance

Chalamet delivers one of his most playful and technically sharp performances. His Marty is a showman, a trickster, a kid who treats every room like a stage. Whether he’s dazzling a crowd during a match, sweet‑talking his girlfriend Rachel (a tender Odessa A’Zion), or giving acting notes to Kay Stone (Gwyneth Paltrow, sly and elegant), he’s always performing — and always one misstep away from disaster.

💥 A picaresque ride full of chaos, humor, and heart

Safdie’s direction is a controlled whirlwind. The film leaps from comic mishaps to genuine danger, from romantic chaos to competitive fever, without ever losing its pulse. A rigged match — both absurd and heartbreaking — becomes a turning point, forcing Marty to confront whether he’s truly steering his own story or simply improvising through it.

✡️ Identity, resilience, and the making of a mensch

Beneath the frenzy, the film carries a deeper emotional current. Marty’s Jewish identity, and the generational weight behind it, surfaces in a powerful anecdote from a friend who survived Auschwitz. Safdie uses this moment not as a detour but as a reminder: ambition can be survival, and becoming a mensch — an admirable human being — is a lifelong pursuit.

The final image, cheeky and philosophical, suggests that life itself is a competition for existence. Like a ping‑pong ball refusing to fall, the will to live keeps bouncing back.

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