‘Masterpiece’ film crowned ‘best film of 2025’ before it’s even out | Films | Entertainment

Ahead of the Oscar nominations, many, many amazing films are released. This year has been a standout year for cinema, with the release of big-budget gangster meets vampire period piece Sinners and British indie film Die My Love, which had an iconic casting of Jennifer Lawrence opposite Robert Pattinson in the leading roles.

But one filmmaker seems to be making his name known far and wide, and that is Uncut Gems director Josh Safdie, who had success earlier this year with The Smashing Machine. However, his latest release, Marty Supreme, really has people talking. There is a huge buzz around the film starring Timothée Chalamet; despite it not even being out in cinemas yet, it has been labelled “2025’s best film”.

The film follows a young man, Marty Mauser, with a dream that no one respects, as he goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness in 1950s New York.

In early reviews, Marty Supreme has already received widespread acclaim, with many stating that it is a “career-defining performance” for Chalamet, who formerly said in a 2025 SAG Award acceptance speech that he himself was on the hunt for greatness. 

Marty Supreme already has a near-perfect 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the critics’ consensus stating: “Serving up Timothée Chalamet at his most infectiously charismatic, Marty Supreme is a propulsive epic that realises its sky-high aspirations even while it critiques its indelible hero’s toxic ambition.” 

The Telegraph’s chief film critic Robbie Collin awarded the film five stars and said: “Timothée Chalamet is ping-pong perfection in 2025’s best film.”

He added: ” Josh Safdie’s virtuosically madcap period comedy – the best film of the year – is exactly the jolt the coming Oscars season needed.”

Peter Bradshaw of the Guardian awarded Marty Supreme five stars and said: “Marty Supreme is on its own spectrum of determination and emotional woundedness, and Chalamet hilariously enacts an unstoppable live-wire twitch, powered by indignation and self-pity.”

Christopher Campbell of Rotten Tomatoes stated: “Timothée Chalamet delivers an Oscar-worthy performance in one of the best films of the year.”

Marty Supreme is out in UK cinemas from December 26.