Film Critics Have A Problem With "Malcolm & Marie"
it's one thing to have a ~mean/dumb movie critic~ character in your movie (we're used to it!) but it's another thing entirely to make a whole movie about how you got a bad review once and how that means nobody understands your art https://t.co/TzcYlsvQa3
- karen han (@karenyhan) January 22, 2021
while inital twitter reactions for the movie were very good, the actual reviews look different
the gist:
In 2019 nepotism kid Sam Levinson wrote and directed Assassination Nation, LA Times film critic Katie Walsh gave it a bad review.
In Malcolm & Marie John David Washington's character is very mad about a bad review from “the white woman from the L.A. Times” and goes on a long rant about her
Malcolm & Marie, in which a self-appointed visionary director sets about defending that title from any critics who dare disagree. https://t.co/YBSgelPHNK
- Guy Lodge (@GuyLodge) January 22, 2021
MALCOLM & MARIE: frustrating!https://t.co/GwBspY7DNP
- david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) January 22, 2021
Nevermind projecting all his issues with authorship, authenticity and privilege onto said Black character. https://t.co/4ppvCS8U5h
- Radheyan Simonpillai (@JustSayRad) January 22, 2021
I might expand this to a fuller piece, but there's something unsettling about Levinson using JDW as a shield in a bid to really talk about himself.
- Robert Daniels (@812filmreviews) January 22, 2021
I, and going by the box office no one else either, have not seen Assassination Nation, but here is Walsh's review:
Review: 'Assassination Nation' is exploitative horror that has the gall to lecture us on grrrl power
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