Welcome back to my Home Movies! Today, we have big dreams to contend with as Marty Supreme leads the charge. This week also brings a pair of Criterion Collection releases, as well as a few 4K re-releases. What else is hitting shelves, besides a rousing look at a would-be ping pong legend? Read on to find out…
Joey’s Top Pick
Marty Supreme
For a while there, it really seemed like Timothée Chalamet was going to win Best Actor at the Oscars for Marty Supreme. Josh Safdie‘s manic sports drama features youthful arrogance at its peak, with Chalamet doing a tour de force that borders on mania. It was one of the performances of 2025, regardless of the Academy Awards and their decision (which also was a terrific one, I might add). You can see my conversations with Chalamet’s co-stars Odessa A’zion here and Gwyneth Paltrow here. My review of the film here began like so:
It’s almost absurd how Marty Supreme never stops. Whether it’s Timothée Chalamet‘s title character talking a mile a minute, getting in and out of trouble, or the way the world around him is constantly in motion, there’s nothing calm about this film. For two and a half hours, you just have to give yourself over to controlled chaos, which makes for a pulse-pounding cinematic experience. In pushing Chalamet, the character, and the world, nearly to the breaking point, the movie ends up being a singular experience that you won’t soon forget. Believe the hype about this one, folks.
Marty Supreme depicts youthful arrogance, confidence, exuberance, and more with a pedal to the metal feel that only a Safdie could pull off. While Benny Safdie opted to try something a bit different with The Smashing Machine (to strong results, as I said here in my review), Josh Safdie has turbocharged the filmmaking style he and his brother developed over the years. Marty Supreme is bigger and has a more epic scale than something like Uncut Gems, but is very much a companion piece. Quality wise, it’s on the same level, too, as this is terrific filmmaking from top to bottom.
Also Available This Week
The Gambler (4K)
Greenland (4K)
Greenland 2: Migration
Outbreak (4K)
Salem’s Lot (TV)
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
Criterion Corner
The Blade
From The Criterion Collection: “Among the boldest accomplishments of Hong Kong cinema’s golden age, this uniquely visceral martial-arts movie puts a gritty new spin on the story of the one-armed swordsman, an iconic figure from the moment he was introduced by the Shaw Brothers studio in 1967. Composed in a whirlwind of immersive close-ups and fractured editing, The Blade follows the young sword-maker Ding On (Vincent Zhao), who, after losing an arm in an ambush, transforms himself into a furious avenger. With its intentionally disorienting stylization and starkly brutal tone, The Blade was a rare commercial disappointment for Tsui Hark, but it has since been reclaimed as one of the director’s most radical visions—a tour de force of action expressionism, and a scathing reappraisal of the wuxia genre’s code of masculinity, that achieves a feverish intensity.”
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A Man and a Woman
From The Criterion Collection: “Claude Lelouch’s Academy Award–winning international sensation is a paragon of swooning cinematic romanticism and 1960s chic. Against the rain-swept backdrop of the Normandy coast, two widowed single parents—race-car driver Jean-Louis (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and film-script supervisor Anne (Anouk Aimée)—find themselves falling for each other. But are they ready to move on from the shadows of their former lovers? Reveling in its stars’ chemistry and unfolding as a sublime swirl of shifting film stocks, whirling camera work, and time- and space-collapsing editing—all set to Francis Lai’s unforgettable score—A Man and a Woman endures as one of the most intoxicating love stories ever told.”
Stay tuned for more next week…
