There’s little about Marty Supreme that isn’t exciting. Timothée Chalamet as a ping-pong prodigy? Yes. Chalamet entangled in a romance with Gwyneth Paltrow? Even better. And Josh Safdie directing his first solo feature, just months after his brother, Benny, did the same with The Smashing Machine? Definitely yes. Set in the 1950s and inspired by the real-life table-tennis champion Marty Reisman, the film introduces Marty at the dawn of his career—his success uncertain, yet, unbeknown to him, just within reach. —Jeanne Malle