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The Smashing Machine (2025)

Far from mythologising Mark Kerr’s contributions to mixed martial arts, Benny Safdie treats his body as both an instrument and casualty of the sport’s formation in The Smashing Machine, illustrating its personal cost in intensely tactile, psychological terms.

Marty Supreme (2025)

Table tennis superstar Marty Mauser is unlikeable a sports movie antihero as they come, and through Josh Safdie’s abrasive illustration of a self-serving quest for glory, Marty Supreme propels his morally dubious ventures forward on waves of frantic, pulsating momentum.

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