'Malcolm & Marie': Film Review

With “Malcolm & Marie” finally available for everyone on Netflix, there is a large number of people watching the highly-anticipated awards contender. And with that, there are new people watching the film and having questions about the way the film came together and potentially problematic issues with the story.

Zendaya‘s new movie Malcolm & Marie is currently the number one movie on Netflix and she’s opening up about the decision to film it in black and white.

At a time in which film and television production was on lockdown due to the emerging Coronavirus pandemic, Malcolm & Marie was the rare project heading into production. The $2.5 million indie about a late-night debate between a young couple got made because writer/director Sam Levinson answered Zendaya’s call to write a contained drama that might keep them and their Euphoria crew employed after the HBO drama was shuttered days before shooting a new season.

Malcolm & Marie took me back to that place nearly a decade ago when naps would follow disagreements and coming to any sort of resolve entailed a marathon of texts and at least two glasses of wine. The movie, now streaming and directed by Euphoria creator Sam Levinson, should really come with a trigger warning.

what to watch this weekend and where to stream it.Even if you are foregoing watching this weekend’s big sporting event, this weekend can still be jam-packed with drama thanks to the new releases out on streaming this weekend. Malcolm & Marie, the conversation-starting Sam Levinson film starring Zendaya is now out on Netflix, and The New York Times’ latest docuseries episode, Framing Britney Spears, is gearing to pop the top off of the star’s conservatorship controversy over on Hulu.

Zendaya is just as excited as we are that Malcolm & Marie will be debuting in just a few short hours!

“Malcolm & Marie” is far from your typical film. Not only is it an incredibly intimate black and white drama with a cast list of only two actors and a setting inside a beautiful mansion, “Malcolm & Marie” is one of the first films that entered production during the pandemic last year.

NEW YORK -- The global pandemic was not about to stop filmmaker Sam Levinson without a fight — literally.The creator of HBO's “Euphoria” found his hit series shuttered so he pivoted to writing and directing “Malcolm & Marie,” a film about an epic lovers’ quarrel starring John David Washington and Zendaya — who also stars in the HBO show.Set in a luxury California beach house, Washington's Malcolm — an up-and-coming director — and Zendaya's Marie — an out-of-work actress — have returned after a

their stunning, modernist Los Angeles home, “Malcolm & Marie” has the stylized appearance of “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” as well as the cocktails and shouting matches.But if Edward Albee's scathing play and Mike Nichols' scalding screen adaptation used the anger and pain of a boozing couple to burrow brutally into marriage, the domestic fury of writer-director Sam Levinson's millennial melodrama is glossier and sexier but of far less substance.

, is getting Oscar buzz—and backlash. Euphoria creator Sam Levinson wrote the film for Zendaya, but her age gap with love interest John David Washington is causing some criticism among fans.

Kate Aurthur editorIt was lucky for the filmmakers behind the self-financed “Malcolm & Marie” that they didn’t have a studio behind them, said Zendaya, the movie’s star and producer, because it took them two days of shooting to figure out what they were doing.

The Netflix drama Malcolm & Marie, from Euphoria creator Sam Levinson, was one of the first — if not the first — movie that was shot during the coronavirus pandemic. The idea for the movie surfaced after Euphoria shut down production, and Levinson had a conversation with his Emmy-winning star Zendaya about the possibility of making a film during a time when Hollywood was pretty much on hiatus, and Levinson felt a responsibility to get his crew back to work.

“No one fucking cares about that sh*t, Malcolm!” shouts an exasperated Marie (Zendaya). Malcolm (John David Washington) worships the classic filmmakers—a love externalized by way of the vintage title credits that open the film—espousing the genius of William Wyler and the brilliance of “The Best Years of Our Lives” and “Citizen Kane.” Within the confines of this luxe modernist home, nestled in the Hollywood hills, the ensuing quarrel between the couple is unlike any other.

Tenet actor stars opposite Zendaya in Sam Levinson’s forthcoming romantic drama Malcolm and Marie, as a filmmaker and his girlfriend coming home from a movie premiere.When asked about the criticism surrounding the decision to cast Washington, 36, opposite Zendaya, 24, Washington told Variety: “I wasn’t concerned about it because she is a woman.”He added: “People are going to see in this film how much of a woman she is.

John David Washington co-stars with Zendaya in “Malcolm & Marie”, a pandemic-shot drama for Netflix that explores the relationship between a director and his girlfriend, directed by Sam Levinson (creator of Zendaya’s HBO hit “Euphoria”).

John David Washington is addressing some backlash.