Movie Review: ‘Marty Supreme’ Full of Wit, Charm

Movie review: ‘Marty Supreme’ full of wit, charm

Josh Safdie’s movies, made both alone and with his brother Benny, create a world where a lost midcentury sensibility rubs elbows with the hyperreal. “Marty Supreme” is one of the most pungent distillations of his style yet: a film perfumed not just by pastrami smoke and pickled East Coast Jewishness, but by the ever-beloved ghosts of the 1980s and even the canned awe of the internet era in Daniel Lopatin’s score. It’s set in New York in 1952, an…

Film review: Marty Supreme - the unstoppable Timothee Chalamet strikes again

Timothée Chalamet strikes again. Only a whisker over thirty, the A24 darling has yet to put a foot wrong in a career that grows more prevalent by…

‘Marty Supreme’'s subtle undercurrent of anti-Jewish tropes raises concerns

Will Leitch’s Dec. 31 column about the movie, “Marty Supreme,” fell in line with all the promotions and accolades (“If you want to understand America, watch ‘Marty Supreme’”). Timothée Chalamet rigorously touted this film in the same ruthless way that his character Marty Mauser promoted himself in the movie. Leitch comments that this is a “succinct summation of America.” Leitch acknowledges Marty’s relentless pursuit of his goals, letting no one…

Movie Review: “Marty Supreme”

By Bob GarverBack in 2019, brothers Benny and Josh Safdie delivered one of the best films of the year, and possibly the decade, with “Uncut Gems.” The film was, as I wrote in a review earlier this year, “a 135-minute anxiety attack.” And I mean that in the best possible way – I have enormous amounts of respect for movies and filmmakers that know just how to push my buttons. Now in 2025, the Safdie brothers have graduated to solo projects. Benny …

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Movie review: ‘Marty Supreme’

Bob Garver Contributor Back in 2019, brothers Benny and Josh Safdie delivered one of the best films of the year, and possibly the decade, with “Uncut Gems.” The film was, as I wrote in a review earlier this year, “a 135-minute anxiety attack.” And I mean that in the best possible way – I have […]