The first reviews of Zendaya and John David Washington star Malcolm and Marie are out. To date, managing director Sam Levinson has received a positive critical reception with a 75 percent rating at the Rotten Tomatoes review collection site.
Malcolm and Marie’s two main actors are playing twins. Malcolm in Washington is a filmmaker who has returned with his wife Marie from the premiere of his film and the festive mood of the evening turns bad as they begin to share revelations about themselves and things go awry. becoming real.
Here is what the critics have to say about the film.
Empire Magazine’s Amon Warmann commented on the film, “Zendaya and John David Washington will deliver the best performances of the role in this stunning two-dimensional show of love, life and art.”
Matt Goldberg of Collider wrote in his review, “With no respect for writer / director Sam Levinson, but Malcolm & Marie is a film that lives or dies with its actors. John David Washington and Zendaya are the only two in the film, and the whole conflict is about the relationship between those two characters. For the long monologues and stark black-and-white cinematography, Malcolm & Marie belong to Washington and Zendaya. “
Hollywood Reporter David Rooney wrote, “Washington holds its own throughout but the film is carried by MendP Zendaya, revealing as much in Marie’s loaded silence as she does. do in her words. “
Variety’s Peter Debruge wrote, “Discomfortably as it can be to watch a couple fight, something amazing is moving around about a filmmaker until a whole film is dedicated to admitting that it was not. can do this by itself. And it only took two actors, a tiny little team and a global pandemic to bring out that feeling. ”
Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times was more important. He wrote, “Words turn out to be ‘Malcolm & Marie’s’, not just because there are so many of them, but because they feel like building blocks. cleas parlor meta-film… ”
David Ehrlich of Indiewire gave C + to the film and wrote in his review, “Washington is a force of nature in a non-verbal narcissist role whose charisma is diminished by his ordeal, but only as much as you can with a character that is always punctuating. down at his pictorial lover to feel high, and / or mouth-watering his way through a zillion different situations in which the Pinter-esque precision of Levinson’s writing runs against his pen to extend his -all thinking to millennial thinking deserves a cringe- piece. ”
Malcolm and Marie will first appear on Netflix on February 5th.