I’m Trevor with the Sasquatch Movie Minute and we are running down my ranking of the 10 nominees for Oscars BEST PICTURE 2025.

 

#4 is MARTY SUPREME, directed by Josh Safdie, starring Timothee Chalamet.

 

This film is a pure adrenaline rush, a propulsive ride through the life of a fast-talking, delusional professional ping pong player named Marty. There are SO many fascinating characters that flash through this, then drop as we get to the next interesting thing. Marty’s all-bs-all-the-time character is hard to love, but gets a wonderfully empathetic finale that cracks his world wide open. So much of this shouldn’t work, like the amazing film score is a synth mash of 80s classics, but the film takes place in the 1950s. Films built on adrenaline like this can’t always sustain it and I think the momentum flags in the middle, but cranks right back up for the ending.

 

Best Scene: Though I laughed out loud at the intro scene with the swimmers and ‘Forever Young’ song, I was most impressed by an early dinner scene with Marty and Mr. Wonderful himself, Kevin O’Leary. The scene succinctly shows how obnoxious Marty is, but also how weirdly charming his verbal strikes and feints can be. This scene also has a ludicrous segue into a Holocaust story about bees that has to be seen to be believed.

 

Best Performance. Chalamat is fantastic and should win everything, but lets give a hand to Gwyneth Paltrow, who feels like she is actually TRYING in a film for the first time in awhile. Her aging actress character is a complex ball of elegance and impulse, wrapped up with grief over a lost son. She has so many lovely moments that hit, I particularly loved a smile as her back was turned to a theater audience. And lets give Mr. Wonderful a shout-out for his bonkers final monlogue.

 

A wild ride, killer scenes and performances, see this out loud in a theater!