Marty Mauser is the Safdie’s best Jew yet, more terrific and more terrible than Uncut Gems’s Howie. Table tennis is the perfect vessel for this epic, its nebbishy, absurd quality always undercutting Mauser’s claim to greatness. It is the kind of a thing a Jew could be great at, like betting on basketball or inserting oneself in an ethically ambiguous global commodity chain. In this way Mauser is the perfect mid-century Jew; despite his personality, his medium is ultimately a…