Timothée Chalamet’s Best Movie Isn’t Marty Supreme or Dune 2 — It’s This 5-Time Oscar-Nominated Masterpiece
Timothée Chalamet is on a tear as Marty Supreme draws raves and is hailed as his career-best turn, sitting at 95% on Rotten Tomatoes — his second-highest rating, just behind the 99% of his eight-year-old coming-of-age gem Lady Bird.
Timothee Chalamet is having a moment. 'Marty Supreme' is racking up love from critics, and a lot of them are calling it the best work he has ever done. Here is the twist: even with all that hype, his highest-rated movie on Rotten Tomatoes is still an 8-year-old one you probably already adore.
'Marty Supreme' is a legit career high
The A24-backed drama puts Chalamet in the driver’s seat as Marty Mauser, and critics are all-in. It is sitting at 95% on Rotten Tomatoes right now, making it his second highest-rated movie to date. The vibe of the reviews: fast, slick, big swings, and a lead performance that is basically rocket fuel. Even the Rotten Tomatoes blurb boils down to: this thing moves like a shot, nails its big ambitions, and still has time to poke at its hero’s messier impulses. Over on IMDb, it is at an 8 as of today.
Trade folks are piling on the praise too. Variety’s Ramin Setoodeh compared it to a mash-up of 'Uncut Gems', 'The Catcher in the Rye', and 'Jerry Maguire' and said it rides on Chalamet’s best work yet. THR’s David Canfield called it a career-best, the kind of role he was born to play.
"This is probably my best performance, and it’s been like seven, eight years that I feel like I’ve been handing in really, really committed, top-of-the-line performances. And it’s important to say out loud because the discipline and the work ethic I’m bringing to these things, I don’t want people to take for granted. I don’t want to take for granted. This is really some top-level sh*t."
That is Chalamet, not exactly underselling it in a recent chat with Margaret Gardiner. Confidence aside, the numbers back him up at the box office too. In limited release, the film pulled in about $875,000 from just six theaters over the weekend, which is reportedly the best per-theater average any movie has seen in almost a decade.
But his top-rated movie is still 'Lady Bird' at 99%
Yep. The 2017 coming-of-age gem 'Lady Bird' remains Chalamet’s best-reviewed movie with a 99% on Rotten Tomatoes. It was one of Greta Gerwig’s first big statements as a filmmaker, and plenty of critics still argue her later global smash 'Barbie' never topped it in terms of pure craft.
Saoirse Ronan leads as a senior battling through a complicated mother-daughter relationship. The cast is stacked: Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, Beanie Feldstein, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Lois Smith, and yes, a not-front-and-center but memorable Chalamet.
Quick stats for the road: made for about $10 million, 'Lady Bird' earned $79 million worldwide. A24 distributed it, and at the time it became the company’s highest-grossing title. The next year at the 90th Oscars, it went 0-for-5 despite nominations for Best Picture, Best Actress (Ronan), Best Supporting Actress (Metcalf), Best Original Screenplay, and Best Director (Gerwig) - a snub run that felt like a gut punch back then. Chalamet later re-teamed with Gerwig on 2019’s 'Little Women', which sits at the same 95% as 'Marty Supreme'.
If you want to revisit it, 'Lady Bird' is now streaming on Cinemax.
Where the rest of his filmography lands right now
Chalamet’s recent streak is doing the heavy lifting in his filmography, and the scoreboard is kind of fascinating. Here is how the big titles shake out on Rotten Tomatoes at the moment:
- Lady Bird - 99% (best-rated)
- Marty Supreme - 95% (career-best reviews, second-highest score)
- Little Women - 95%
- Call Me By Your Name - 95%
- Dune: Part II - 92% (higher than the first film’s 83%)
- Wonka - 82%
- Bones and All - 82%
- A Complete Unknown - 82% (last year’s Oscar-nominated title)
- Interstellar - 73% (lower than you might expect given the fandom)
- Don’t Look Up - 56%
- A Rainy Day in New York - 47%
- One & Two - 47%
- Love the Coopers - 19% (the basement)
The throughline
Chalamet is not the lead in 'Lady Bird', but the pattern is the point: when he picks strong directors and strong scripts, the results tend to land - sometimes at 99%. 'Marty Supreme' keeps that track record intact and then some. If you were waiting for the movie where he goes full-throttle star, this might be the one.