
New Zealand Herald
There's a great film in here somewhere but original, grown-up cinema needs to do much, much better than this.
Full reviewMelissa 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.
There's a great film in here somewhere but original, grown-up cinema needs to do much, much better than this.
Full reviewThis is a clumsy, oddly patronising and disappointing project. Comparisons to last year's mostly superb Widows are damning.
Full reviewMcCarthy, 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.
Full reviewThe Kitchen offers nothing redeeming to cling close to our chests, nothing warming nor interesting nor worth investing in.
Full reviewAn offense against feminism, narrative logic and Fleetwood Mac, "The Kitchen" is a terrible, witless mess.
Full reviewThe plot of "The Kitchen" twists and buckles but it never fully breathes.
Full reviewWhen 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.
Full reviewIt 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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