There s little to like about messy, rambling Malcolm & Marie The best efforts of Zendaya and John David Washington cannot redeem Sam Levinson s new Netflix film Tymon Smith Features writer, film and series reviewer 14 February 2021 - 00:00 Zendaya and John David Washington as the title characters in Malcolm & Marie . Image: Netflix
It s early in the morning in a suitably envy-inducing modernist mansion in the Hollywood hills. The cool silence of this carefully constructed monument to success and detached observation of the world below is soon shattered by the arrival of brashly self-confident film director Malcolm (John David Washington) and his beautiful but clearly bothered girlfriend Marie (Zendaya).