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How Marty Supreme was received
2025 · Josh Safdie · Marty Supreme on Sightlines
The arc
Dropped on Christmas Day 2025 to record-breaking arthouse numbers and instant Oscar buzz for Chalamet, it just as instantly became the movie everyone was fighting about — six months on, the acclaim and the walkouts have both hardened into legend.
What’s debated
The ending: is Marty's final catharsis earned character growth or delusional, unearned crocodile tears — and is the film indicting his hustler narcissism or letting it win?
Its footprint
A half-star Letterboxd review from someone who walked out mid-screening went viral, turning the film into a love-it-or-storm-out litmus test; its $145K-per-screen NYC/LA opening became box-office lore overnight.
Where it stands
Already a Letterboxd flashpoint title — the divisive-by-design Safdie picture you're expected to have an opinion on, not just have seen.
Did you know? Its six-screen platform opening averaged a staggering ~$145,913 per location — the best per-theater average in A24 history and the best for any film since La La Land in 2016.