Marty Supreme: New Zealand trailer and release date
The tables are turned on Timothy Chalamet in this oddball sports drama.
It’s sort of funny that both the Safdie brothers—the guys who gave us anxiety-inducing modern classic Uncut Gems—have released sports biopics in the same 12 months. While Benny Safdie gave us the underwhelming The Smashing Machine with Dwayne Johnson, Benny has recruited Timothy Chalamet for this period piece set in the high stakes world of…table tennis!
When is Marty Supreme being released in New Zealand?
Marty Supreme is screening exclusively in New Zealand cinemas from January 22, 2026.
What is Marty Supreme about?
Table tennis!
Loosely based (very loosely, by all accounts) on the life of real world ping pong legend Marty Reisman, Marty Supreme follows Marty Mauser, a working class kid from New York City with a burning desire to become the greatest ping pong player the world has ever seen. But that ambition is untempered by much in the way of human feeling, and as far as Marty is concerned, everything is secondary to his lifelong goal. So, it’s a bit like Raging Bull, but with ping pong instead of boxing.
The cast of Marty Supreme
Timothée Chalamet is Marty Mauser, our driven, ping pong playing antihero; Gwyneth Paltrow is Kay Stone, a wealthy, faded actress who forms an on again-off again connection with Marty; Odessa A’zion is Rachel Mizler, a married pet-store clerk pregnant with Marty’s child; Kevin O’Leary is Milton Rockwell, a businessman and Kay’s husband; Tyler Okonma is Wally, Marty’s taxi-driver mate and fellow ping pong aficionado; legendary director Abel Ferrara is Ezra Mishkin, a local criminal; and Fran Drescher is Rebecca Mauser, Marty’s mother.
Marty Supreme trailer
Why we’re excited about Marty Supreme
Ping pong shows up in movies now and again, usually as a bit of a punchline—Forrest Gump, Balls of Fury, and so on. Marty Supreme takes the whole game very seriously, but Safdie’s gutter-level satirical gaze remains firmly fixed on the ball.
