2019 Directed by Andrea Berloff
The mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but a sharp ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia's matters into their own hands—proving unexpectedly adept at everything from running the rackets to taking out the competition…literally.
Melissa McCarthy Tiffany Haddish Elisabeth Moss Domhnall Gleeson Common Margo Martindale Bill Camp Brian d'Arcy James James Badge Dale Alicia Coppola Jeremy Bobb Stephen Singer Wayne Duvall Pamela Dunlap Annabella Sciorra Will Swenson John Sharian Brian Tarantina Myk Watford E.J. Bonilla Bernie McInerney Sharon Washington Matthew Helms Angus O'Brien Ciarán O'Reilly Nicholas Zoto Maren Heary Tatienne Hendricks-Tellefsen Jordan Gelber Show All…
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Las reinas del crimen, The Kitchen - 2019 FR, Кухня
(Extended version of my review for Willamette Week)
Melissa McCarthy, Elisabeth Moss, and Tiffany Haddish star as three Irish mob wives who are left penniless and desperate when their criminal husbands are sent to prison. To survive the grittiness of 1978 Hell’s Kitchen, they pick up where their spouses left off, and find they’re even more skilled at the fine art of organized crime. Utilizing their traditionally feminine proclivities for strategic communication and vulpine manipulation, the trio savor their ascension. Then their husbands are released. Once the formerly disenfranchised sample the irresistible flavor of power, how do they return to the banality of packing the kids’ school lunches?
An intriguing premise that suffers from sloppy execution, the immense talent of…
why must a movie be “good” is it not enough to sit somewhere dark and see domhnall gleeson romantically dismember a body with elisabeth moss, huge?
no idea where this new movement of giving melissa mccarthy actually good and serious roles came from, but i'm HERE FOR IT
This movie is consistently mediocre. It occasionally tried to break free and be good, but it always settles back down. The three leads are great, though! Moss can play wounded like no other.
Don't get me wrong, though. I'm happy this movie exists. Warner Bros. gave $38 million to a first-time female director to make a movie based on an unknown (at least to me) comic book about women. These are the kinds of chances Hollywood should take more often.
My fat ass still wants to know what kind of cookies Melissa McCarthy made...
Crime and boxing films are normally graded on my sex and pizza scale of even the worst being above average ways to spend your time.
I was actually enjoying myself for more than a few ten to fifteen minutes stretches of screentime. But at the end of the day someone turned the kitsch dial up to twelve and broke it off. Try as it might it can't have its cake and eat it too.
1. Morally twisted 2. poorly written, directed and acted 3. tonally directionless 4. Unintentionally funny 5. So many other problems. A very bad movie.
The Kitchen is an extremely boring movie about unsympathetic characters. That's a bad combination. Jerks can be fun to watch, but they have to, you know, be fun to watch. The three mob wives turned mob bosses in Andrea Berloff's leaden drama complain about their husbands and strut down the street in slow-motion, but don't demonstrate any recognizable or sympathetic human character traits, and their male antagonists are similarly unengaging. The whole movie is like a dumb version of Widows, with all the distinctive features (Chicago setting, race/class/political dynamics) stripped away. Not a fun watch and an exceedingly strange move to cast two very famous comic actors In a movie with no discernable sense of humor.
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This one is a mess. I was hoping for great things given the cast, but the story couldn’t find what it wanted to be. Great soundtrack though.
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