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The Kitchen

2019

Andrea Berloff

Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Elisabeth Moss, Domhnall Gleeson ...

4.8

1,276

Action. Drama The wives of New York gangsters in Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s continue to operate their husbands' rackets after they're locked up in prison.

	Media	Author	Review
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"A drama that's just like 'Widows' except not as good (...) A summer popcorn movie"
		Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"'The Kitchen' may be the worst movie I’ve seen this year (...) It’s just downright poorly made (...) It’s a mess of a movie, choppy and incoherent"
		Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter	"Strong on flavorful atmosphere, but never really gets cooking."
		Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"It’s assembled with such staggering incompetency that from the very first scene it boils over into one star territory (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"
		Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"[It has] more sizzle than steak (...) The plot of 'The Kitchen' twists and buckles but it never fully breathes."
		Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"[The] scenes have a choppy, perfunctory quality that fights the story at every turn (...) Tonally, too, 'The Kitchen' is all over the place (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		Kate Erbland IndieWire	"Despite a strong first act, the episodic nature of Berloff’s source material hamstrings the film’s narrative, and the film’s second half feels chopped up and disconnected from what has come before."
		Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"A waste of great actresses (...) A girls-can-do-crime-too story that can’t quite decide if it wants to be a drama or a caper, and just ends up settling for some silly, sour place in between."
		Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"An offense against feminism, narrative logic and Fleetwood Mac, 'The Kitchen' is a terrible, witless mess."
		Katie Rife AV Club	"What lingers afterwards is the stale taste of its lukewarm execution (...) Save yourself the disappointment and go rent 'Widows' instead."
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"There’s a satisfying rush in watching these wives assert themselves after their husbands get sent to jail (...) [It] has a cartoon-y vibe that trivialises the story’s thematic underpinnings and sense of stakes"
		Brian Truitt USA Today	"Despite some pleasant swerves (...) [it] blunders a real chance to cook up something fresh and is undone by derivative dialogue and a muddled plot (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Robert Abele The Wrap	"A discordant mix of clichés, incoherence and ill-used stars (...) [It] is more superficial comic-book posturing than enjoyable blast of exploitation equality."
		Ed Power Telegraph	"The undercooked, uneven all-female 'Goodfellas' nobody asked for (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		James White Empire	"'The Kitchen' flits through scenes, coming across as its own trailer rather than a full movie. And it makes disappointing use of its great components (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Donald Clarke Irish Times	"Shallow comedy with nonsensical plot (...) The picture splutters to one of the most inconsequential endings I can remember (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Chris Wasser Irish Independent	"The speed and manner in which this shallow, underdeveloped feature unravels and, indeed, explains itself, borders on the absurd (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"
		Brian Lloyd entertainment.ie	"A missed opportunity (...) By the first twenty minutes, you can see exactly where it's headed (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 5)"

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