Marty Supreme (2025)

Watched on 2026-05-26

This review may contain spoilers.

Significantly tones down the anxiety inducing vibes of Uncut Gems but still focuses on a main character who can't seem to help but make a series of terrible decisions. Generally I'm sort of ambivalent about Safadie as a director (I don't think he has a great visual sense and has a specific tone he does well but not much else) and but I always really appreciate the effort puts in to casting and scene setting; this is a film packed with thoughtful details bulking up and filling out the rather slight picaresque plot. Comfortably his best film yet.

There are loads of loose ends hanging, which I'm fine with, but I do feel like Koto Endo got dealt a bum hand, he's beaten by Marty and denied the opportunity for a rematch on the world stage, if he wins it will be hollow -- feels like there could be a whole other film about the parallels and differences between the Jewish and Japanese post war experiences. Josh Safadie's talked about how the original draft went all the way through to the 80s (and resolved that vampire bit -- actually, on that subject I think that quick bit of dialogue is real genius, real eye of the duck stuff) and this is a rare occasion on which I'd be totally up for a sequel.