The preliminary evaluations of Zendaya and John David Washington starrer Malcolm and Marie are out. So far, the Sam Levinson directorial has obtained principally constructive essential reception with a 75 per cent score at overview aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes.
Malcolm and Marie has the 2 lead actors enjoying a pair. Washington’s Malcolm is a filmmaker who has returned along with his spouse Marie from his film’s premiere and the celebratory temper of the night turns critical as they start to share revelations about themselves and issues get actual.
Here’s what the critics are saying concerning the movie.
Empire Magazine’s Amon Warmann mentioned concerning the movie, “Zendaya and John David Washington deliver career-best performances in this mesmerising two-hander that ruminates on love, life and art.”
Collider’s Matt Goldberg wrote in his overview, “No disrespect to writer/director Sam Levinson, but Malcolm & Marie is a movie that lives or dies by its actors. John David Washington and Zendaya are the only two people in the movie, and the entire conflict is about the relationship between these two characters. For all of the long monologues and stark black-and-white cinematography, Malcolm & Marie belongs to Washington and Zendaya.”
The Hollywood Reporter’s David Rooney wrote, “Washington holds his own throughout but it’s MVP Zendaya who carries the movie, revealing as much in Marie’s loaded silences as she does in her words.”
Variety’s Peter Debruge wrote, “Uncomfortable as it can be to watch a couple fight, there’s something incredibly moving about a filmmaker compelled to dedicate an entire movie to acknowledging he couldn’t do this alone. And all it took was two actors, a tiny crew and a global pandemic to bring that sentiment out into the open.”
Los Angeles Times’s Justin Chang was extra essential. He wrote, “Words turn out to be the undoing of ‘Malcolm & Marie,’ not just because there are so many of them, but because they feel like the building blocks of a meta-movie parlor trick…”
Indiewire’s David Ehrlich gave the movie a C+ and wrote in his overview, “Washington is a force of nature in the role of an abusive narcissist whose charisma is undercut by his cruelty, but there’s only so much you can do with a character who’s constantly punching down at his statuesque girlfriend in order to feel tall, and/or motor-mouthing his way through a zillion different instances in which the Pinter-esque precision of Levinson’s writing chafes against his penchant for expanding every thought into a cringe-worthy millennial think-piece.”
Malcolm and Marie premieres on Netflix on February 5.
