'The Kitchen had potential to be rich, robust fun,' writes V.F. critic Richard Lawson. 'That potential is catastrophically squandered.' Read his full review:
may be the worst movie I’ve seen this year. Not quite as cynical as exploitative faux-anthropology likeNo, the movie is bad in only the purest of terms. It’s just downright poorly made, whether Berloff saw it to the finish line or the movie was wrestled away from her and mucked up in the editing room by unknown hands. It’s a mess of a movie, choppy and incoherent, a mishmash of tone that veers wildly from comedy to bloody drama, a gangster epic with no grounding in any people, place, or thing.
are drifting through space. McCarthy is Kathy, wife to a crook and mother of two, who seizes control of her destiny when her husband is sent upstate along with the husbands of Ruby and Claire . We have no idea how these women interacted with each other before they were bonded by incarceral woe.
Anyone who’s been watching American movies for any amount of time shouldn’t have trouble empathizing with the crooked outsider. Butoffers nothing redeeming to cling close to our chests, nothing warming nor interesting nor worth investing in. The movie judders in its inchoate Scorsesian rhythm from one blunt calamity to the next, roughly tracing the arc that Kathy and her cohort ride from browbeaten molls to underworld kingpins.
I wish I had anything positive to say about the movie, that I could at least point to the three leads’ performances as lights shining out of the deep, deep dark. But honestly, none of them are very good here, lost as they are in the clutter of Berloff’s disarray. There is nothing good about, a disaster whose only real effect will be to temporarily mar the profiles of all the talented people involved in its making. This brings me no joy to report.
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