Marking the directorial debut of Get Out star Daniel Kaluuya, working alongside architect-turned-filmmaker Kibwe Tavares, The Kitchen is ... a warzone waiting to go off.

| Dec 10, 2024

Closing this year’s London Film Festival, The Kitchen is a remarkable portrayal of gentrification in a futuristic, dystopian London, but one that is eerily accurate to the capital’s current state.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 3, 2024

Visually interesting, smartly written, and lifted up by two great central performances, it’s a thought provoking film that engages with its social issues with pointed determination.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 19, 2024

The Kitchen is something like the dub mix of Mike Davis's Planet of Slums and William Gibson's All Tomorrow's Parties.

| Mar 21, 2024

Kaluuya and Tavares seem to have only scratched the surface of what this story potentially could become.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 6, 2024

While The Kitchen simmers for too long more than once, it is effective when it boils. That certainly goes for its final, tension-filled stretch.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 1, 2024

The writing is so strong and the performances so good that they feel like real people.

| Feb 1, 2024

I like this film quite a lot. It's sharp, it's fast and also slow.

| Feb 1, 2024

It's worth watching, above average for Netflix movies. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 1, 2024

This is a compelling sci-fi movie, one that does not pander to the usual expectations.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 31, 2024

But it's a film that is constantly grounded by its impactful, human tale.

| Jan 30, 2024

Speaking of science fiction, but through a much smaller, almost social realist lens, comes a story of fatherhood and love for the community...

| Jan 26, 2024

The Kitchen is a good, timely film, but without Wright's concreting presence, you wonder if the foundations would be as brittle as the tower block in which it's set. Thank god they transferred him in.

| Jan 26, 2024

Every part of The Kitchen, though set in the future, is a love letter to the neighbourhoods the filmmakers grew up in.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Jan 25, 2024

A vivid portrait of an urban dystopia, The Kitchen is sci fi that sets up a troubling vision of the future, while finding room to emphasize the humanity at the core of the story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 25, 2024

More a sacrifice bunt than a homerun, 'The Kitchen' is a commendable, if tame, addition to the dystopian sci-fi library that gets by on pure heart.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 24, 2024

For all the near future stuff and all the sci-fi elements, it's a character drama.

| Jan 23, 2024

The Kitchen reaches a certain emotional intensity in that father-son relationship and also with its visual and musical elements. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.4/5 | Jan 22, 2024

The story that unfolds here — with Kane Robinson as a striver who develops paternal feelings for a parentless boy (Jedaiah Bannerman) — is anticlimactic, but there is richness in the performances and all the film’s details.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 22, 2024

The rich world-building is the picture’s main asset: the film looks fantastic, with its screaming neons and precipitous concrete cliff faces.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 21, 2024