With scattershot writing and ideas, and less than convincing commitment from the cast and crew, The Kitchen offers little to no nutritional value for audience entertainment.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 14, 2024

The filmmaker uses the period setting to comment on a range of still-relevant contemporary inequities faced by the marginalized...

| Nov 8, 2023

The Kitchen was a disappointment. It’s not enough like the comic to convince comic fans to see it, and it’s not good enough on its own to advise people to run to the theaters to see it either.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 8, 2023

It’s almost shocking how lifeless, bland, and even pointless this comic book adaptation’s dialogue is, only matched by its lazy, anemic plot twist.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 20, 2022

The plot never feels constructed in a manner that supports a natural progression in the story, leaving the setups to feel quite accelerated and the latter half of the film to suffer from a slow and dull pace.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 4, 2022

You can feel the film trying to become something it doesn't have the patience or subtlety to be.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 26, 2022

The best thing about this movie unfortunately is the soundtrack.

| Sep 29, 2021

The film moves step-by-step from one scene to the next, but never has any narrative thrust.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 15, 2021

The Kitchen should have been a showcase for both its stars and writer/director. Instead, it's a dumpster fire of a movie that makes little sense and is a black mark on the reputations of its many well-known actors.

| Feb 18, 2021

Nothing quite adds up, character or story wise, and what might have been an interesting and timely look at dismantling of patriarchal structures it instead finds its female empowerment within violence.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 31, 2021

The drama, storytelling, and performances are top-notch.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 7, 2020

It's at its most interesting when seasoned screenwriter Andrea Berloff, making her directorial debut here, allows her movie to become genuinely nasty.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2020

Sometimes you can have all the ingredients but too many cooks in the kitchen. That's the case in the new crime drama "The Kitchen," which features a killer cast and stylish period details, but suffers from an uneven plot that feels slapped together.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 24, 2020

The film is not great. It's too long, it's heavily laden with crime and relies heavily on firepower. The story feels choppy, with no sense of direction.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 6, 2020

In a different film the tension between the demands of the gangster genre and the female empowerment genre would be electric. Here it just means a lot of stock standard gangster movie scenes delivered with a modicum of competence

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 3, 2020

Dramatic moments can and do work within dark comedies, and vice-versa - but by being both at once, The Kitchen ends up giving its audience cinematic whiplash.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 20, 2020

The characters are all one-dimensional, the attempts at catharsis feel canned.

| Feb 15, 2020

The Kitchen knows how to communicate the general outline of the story's emotional beats, but it has absolutely no idea how to make any of them land.

| Jan 20, 2020

There is a great movie buried somewhere in here.

| Original Score: C | Jan 10, 2020

The Kitchen is a good late summer crime movie and a different type of comic book movie (that most won't think is one).

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 10, 2020