Surprise! Josh Safdie‘s Marty Supreme had its world premiere at the 2025 New York Film Festival on Monday night and after the unexpected screening the early reaction started hitting social media. And judging by the surprise premiere of the film, which has its official theatrical release on Dec. 25, the hype train has shot out of the station.
A 1950s New York-set sports dramedy, A24‘s Marty Supreme stars Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser, a disrespected table tennis player who overcomes the odds to achieve greatness. The cast also includes Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A’zion, Kevin O’Leary, Tyler Okonma, Abel Ferrara and Fran Drescher.
Marty Supreme has a lot riding on it for Safdie as well as A24. The film is reportedly A24’s most expensive project to date, budgeted at around $70 million, and is also Safdie’s first solo directing project since his 2008 debut, The Pleasure of Being Robbed. Safdie’s other films — Daddy Longlegs, Lenny Cooke, Heaven Knows What, Good Time and Uncut Gems — were co-directed with his brother Benny before they split up to work on their own projects. Incidentally, Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, another A24 project is also in the awards discussion after bowing to an 15-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival this year, although the film debuted to an anemic $6 million in North America, star Dwayne Johnson’s career-worst opening.
Well ahead of the official reviews for Marty Supreme, read on for the early social media reactions to the film.
MARTY SUPREME: Major, exhilarating filmmaking from Josh Safdie. Timothée Chalamet’s career-best performance—he was born to play this guy—with a tremendous Odessa A’Zion leading a superb supporting cast. It’s a wow.
Marty Mauser may be a little shit, but MARTY SUPREME and Timothée Chalamet are irresistible – an ‘80s-styled, 50s-set sports movie with an electric score by Daniel Lopatin and an ensemble firing on all cylinders. A bit too long, but the ending makes it worth it. We have a race? pic.twitter.com/juObkEPu6L
— Dancin’ Dan in NYFFland (@dancindanonfilm) October 7, 2025
MARTY SUPREME is a sprawling and electrifying sports epic bursting with vitality from the first frame to the last. Josh Safdie delivers a masterful slice of organized chaos on a larger scale he’s ever worked with before, propelling us through Marty’s relentless quest to prove to… pic.twitter.com/Ll3zrJnqEB
MARTY SUPREME: yeah Josh took all that wild Safdie energy with him. To call this a sports movie isn’t enough, this is a manic, madcap odyssey that is as exhilarating as it’s exhausting. Timothee’s star power is so bright & undeniable that it’s basically a supernova. LOVED it pic.twitter.com/Nis0tWcySr
MARTY SUPREME is Safdie’s best film yet. A kinetic odyssey that plays like a deranged cross between CATCH ME IF YOU CAN & UNCUT GEMS. Timothée Chalamet delivers the performance of a lifetime in this unforgettable, awe-inspiring cinematic tour-de-force that fires on all cylinders pic.twitter.com/ZGrfWGNYpo
Marty Supreme is a pure delight. Josh Safdie takes us on a chaotic, sprawling globetrot to break down the swaggering hubris of a ping-pong prodigy who can’t being insufferable. It’s remarkable how well this works. Any doubts that Timothée Chalamet is a movie superstar are dead. pic.twitter.com/o7zC1tllGP
Josh Safdie reapplying his UNCUT GEMS greatest hits via MARTY SUPREME but on a larger scale in a portrait of purpose post WWII. Timothée channels that CATCH ME IF YOU CAN DiCaprio and Howard Ratner and makes for a hilarious comic performance. Fun and stressful time all around. pic.twitter.com/bmJefwsxdt
How is that Timothée Chalamet just keeps wowing me more and more with every performance? He is absolutely electrifying in #MartySupreme.
Yet again, you can feel him giving every ounce of himself and then some – a quality this role demands. Chalamet’s Marty is a guy with a… pic.twitter.com/POXymKWKC3
Marty Supreme is an absolute blast of adrenaline and the follow-up to Uncut Gems we’ve been craving. Just as demented and tense, but drunk on the confidence of youth and the arrogance to believe that talent and charm is enough. As a piece of cinema it sure as hell is. #NYFFpic.twitter.com/AKGBIT6hX4
‘Marty Supreme’ is ‘Flight’ meets ‘Coach Carter’ meets ‘Precious (based on the novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire)’ carried by Timothée Chalamet’s best performance yet. I loved it so much. pic.twitter.com/fv8Q7aHZoh
Marty Supreme feels like the most personal movie Josh Safdie has made. A madcap ode to strivers. A great New York movie. A good dog movie. Chalamet born for this.
A24’s Marty Supreme is the secret screening at the NYFF. Josh Safdie going solo delivers a wild rush of nonstop adrenaline much like Uncut Gems; Timothée Chalamet’s no-holds-barred performance could be his Wolf of Wall Street. He’ll be nominated for sure.
MARTY SUPREME is pure electricity, a relentless surge of maximalist filmmaking. Timothée Chalamet’s career-best performance anchors an ensemble that’s magic. It soars from start to finish, a synth-fueled masterpiece and one of the year’s very best.#NYFF#NYFF63#MartySupreme
