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

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

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

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

| Jan 23, 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

A very robust debut that lingers in your mind after.

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

“The Kitchen” almost reads like a damning premonition of what’s to come as the gap between rich and poor widens to even more damning degrees.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 19, 2024

Bleak and often beautiful...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 19, 2024

The direction, by Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya, is sure and unfussy, spinning a warmly humane story of cross-generational connection.

| Jan 18, 2024

Not as revolutionary as Children Of Men, nor as wild as Attack The Block, The Kitchen is still solid British sci-fi with a social-realist flavour. An auspicious directorial debut from Tavares and Kaluuya.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2024

A well-executed film about a familiar kind of urban dystopian nightmare. It is, ironically, sunnier than the Los Angeles of Blade Runner, but the mood is as dire.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 11, 2024

The Kitchen convinces as downbeat futurism, but as drama, it only occasionally rises above a simmer.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 11, 2024

While it runs you through the gamut of emotions, you’ll end up full of warmth while also unmistakably concerned. It will also leave you pondering one other question: Is there anything Daniel Kaluuya can’t do?

| Oct 19, 2023

If the relationship drama at its core doesn’t fully connect with the elegant brutalism of its visual language, there is, nevertheless, a lot to admire in both aspects.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 19, 2023

So The Kitchen is a mood piece, really: it’s just that the mood is unfortunately not very interesting at all.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 17, 2023

It’s a film of ideas and tremendously assertive style all round – just not enough oomph.

| Oct 17, 2023

Kaluuya and Tavares aren’t interested in sentimentality. Instead, the film serves as haunting “what if” scenario, offering viewers a glimpse of a possible future.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 17, 2023

The Kitchen, with its staggering conceptual environment, would've made the basis for a top-tier video game. Or maybe a detailed VR gallery installation. But as a film, and especially as a drama, it doesn't work.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 17, 2023

An intimate, humane study of Black male bonding in a time of systemic social oppression.

| Oct 17, 2023

A worthwhile, engaged film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 17, 2023