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• REVIEW | “Marty Supreme”

  24-12-2025 15:58 via roccitymag.com
  To most, pingpong is just a game to play in a friend’s garage or backyard on a warm summer day. To Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet), the fast-talking hustler at the center of Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme,” it’s a chance to prove he is great at something and can be better than anyone else he’s matched up against.As the movie opens, Marty is working as a shoe salesman in a store owned by his uncle. He’s twitchy and charismatic, quickly proven
  
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• The search for truth among America’s trees

  24-12-2025 15:00 via roccitymag.com
  In his new book, Trent Preszler remembers cutting down a Christmas tree with his father on a snow-drifted South Dakotan prairie. He’s seven or eight years old, yet the memory remains vivid. He recalls that “the young pines stood motionless, waiting to learn which of them would die.”That moment, quiet and severe, opens “Evergreen: The Trees That Shaped America” from Algonquin Books (Little, Brown and Company), on shelves December 2. It becomes the root system for a
  
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