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.