"Many criticized him for his immodesty, but I found it refreshing: After all, Chalamet has never made a secret of his ambition in his interviews or his choice of material. In his best performances, you can see both the character and the actor pushing themselves to greatness, the way Chalamet did playing Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, which earned him the second of two Oscar nominations."
"He's a brilliant player, but for a poor Lower East Side Jewish kid like Marty, playing brilliantly isn't enough: Simply getting to championship tournaments in London and Tokyo will require money he doesn't have. And so Marty, a scrappy, speedy dynamo with a silver tongue and inhuman levels of chutzpah, sets out to borrow, steal, cheat, sweet-talk and hustle his way to the top."
Timothee Chalamet plays Marty Mauser, a 23-year-old Lower East Side shoe salesman in 1952 who aspires to be the world's greatest table-tennis player. Marty is brilliant but lacks the funds to reach international championships, so he resorts to borrowing, stealing, cheating, sweet-talking and hustling to finance his ambitions. The character stays almost constantly on the run, orchestrating scams, shaking down friends, and fleeing the consequences of his schemes. The film is loosely based on table-tennis pro Marty Reisman and channels the ferocious, nail-biting energy of Josh Safdie's earlier New York antiheroes, now staged in a seedy postwar Manhattan.
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