19 h. ago Marty Supreme review: Timothée Chalamet smashes his way to likely Oscars victory

Gwyneth Paltrow smoulders with Chalamet in Josh Safdie’s riotously muscular ping-pong romp

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19 h. ago Marty Supreme review – Timothée Chalamet a smash in spectacular screwball ping

Following every dizzying spin of Chalamet’s table tennis hustler, Josh Safdie’s whip-crack comedy serves sensational shots – and a smart return by Gwyneth PaltrowThis new film from Josh Safdie has the fanatical energy of a 149-minute ping pong rally carried out by a single player running round and round the table. It’s a marathon sprint of gonzo calamities and uproar, a sociopath-screwball nightmare like something by Mel Brooks – only in place of gags, there are detonations of bad taste, cinephile allusions, alpha cameos, frantic deal-making, racism and antisemitism, sentimental yearning and erotic adventures. It’s a farcical race against time where no one needs to eat or sleep.Timothée Chalamet plays Marty Mauser, a spindly motormouth with the glasses of an intellectual, the moustache of a movie star and the physique of a tiny cartoon character. He’s loosely inspired by Marty “The Needle” Reisman, a real-life US table tennis champ from the 1950s who was given to Bobby Riggs-type sh...

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27 h. ago Max Verstappen is laughing at McLaren – how many warnings do they need?

Comment: Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri missed out on victory in Qatar, with Verstappen’s unlikely win taking this unpredictable F1 title race to the season finale in Abu Dhabi. For McLaren, it should never have got this nervy

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68 h. ago Lando Norris sees F1 title lead cut as Oscar Piastri cruises to Qatar sprint victory

British driver can still be crowned world champion on Sunday

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69 h. ago Lando Norris sees lead cut as Oscar Piastri cruises to Qatar sprint victory

Piastri edged two points closer to his McLaren team-mate, with the gap at 22 points ahead of Sunday’s race.

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3 w. ago Brazilian Grand Prix: Lando Norris claims pole after sprint victory ahead of Oscar Piastri

McLaren driver heads up grid in Sao Paulo

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