The A24 feature is directed by Josh Safdie ( Uncut Gems, Good Time ), who also wrote the screenplay with his longtime collaborator Ronald Bronstein. Chalamet stars as Marty Mauser, a born hustler and talented ping-pong player, who is loosely based on the real-life American table tennis champion Marty Reisman.

“Marty Supreme” is a story of a guy burdened by how great he thinks he’s supposed to be. How very American.

Josh Safdie is on his own for Marty Supreme, which plays like a cross between Good Time and a Will Ferrell sports comedy.

In his most demanding performance to date, Timothée Chalamet banishes any trace of self-doubt as a young Jewish table-tennis champ in 1950s New York.

Mean-spiritedness lies in the eye of the beholder: one person’s aggressively sour-minded movie is another’s idea of delightfully jaundiced fun, and no movie this year proves that as aptly as Josh Safdie’s two-and-a-half-hour loop-de-loop character study Marty Supreme.

Odessa A’zion plays Rachel Mizler, Marty’s long-time friend who works in a pet store. A’zion is known for Hellraiser (2022), Sitting in Bars with Cake, Fresh Kills, and TV roles in Nashville and Grand Army.

The Marty Supreme Invitational takes place in the Lower East Side on Dec. 17 to celebrate the upcoming release of the A24 film starring Timothée Chalamet.