New Zealand Herald
There's a great film in here somewhere but original, grown-up cinema needs to do much, much better than this.
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The Kitchen
Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss star in this live action crime drama adapted from the DV/Vertigo graphic novel by Ollie Masters. The wives of some 1970's Hell's Kitchen gangsters continue to operate their husbands' rackets after they get locked up.
2019Rating: MA15+, Strong violence and coarse language102 minsUSA
CrimeDrama
- Director:
- Andrea Berloff (feature debut)
- Writer:
- Andrea Berloff
- Cast:
- Melissa McCarthyTiffany HaddishElisabeth MossBill CampMargo MartindaleDomhnall GleesonCommonBrian d'Arcy James
The Kitchen / Reviews
Stuff
This is a clumsy, oddly patronising and disappointing project. Comparisons to last year's mostly superb Widows are damning.
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McCarthy, Haddish, Moss - Oh, what a movie The Kitchen could have been. But oh what an unholy disaster it is. An early contender for worst of the year.
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Vanity Fair
The Kitchen offers nothing redeeming to cling close to our chests, nothing warming nor interesting nor worth investing in.
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The New York Times
An offense against feminism, narrative logic and Fleetwood Mac, "The Kitchen" is a terrible, witless mess.
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Los Angeles Times
The plot of "The Kitchen" twists and buckles but it never fully breathes.
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Time Out
When featherweight Domhnall Gleeson, as an intense angel of death, is your feminist Irish mob movie's most interesting asset, you need to find Hollywood's witness-protection program immediately.
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The Guardian
It wreaks of studio interference, a film that feels pulled apart and then haphazardly restitched in an editing suite by a committee of people desperate to get it released before swiftly moving on and all agreeing to never speak of it ever again.
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