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 James Badge Dale Brian d'Arcy James Jeremy Bobb Margo Martindale Common E.J. Bonilla Myk Watford Wayne Duvall Bill Camp Stephen Singer Pamela Dunlap Annabella Sciorra Will Swenson John Sharian Brian Tarantina Bernie McInerney Sharon Washington Angus O'Brien Ciarán O'Reilly Nicholas Zoto Maren Heary Tatienne Hendricks-Tellefsen Jordan Gelber Brandon Uranowitz Susan Blommaert Show All…
Michael De Luca Marcus Viscidi Richard Brener Dave Neustadter Aaron L. Gilbert Jason Cloth Michael Disco Elishia Holmes Adam Schlagman
Кухня, Las reinas del crimen, The Kitchen - 2019 FR, Le regine del crimine
Rotten Tomatoes: 23%
Metacritic Metascore: 35
IMDb: 5.4
55/100
Release Date: 09 August 2019
Distributor: Warner Brothers
Budget: $38M
Worldwide Gross: $15.9M
Kathy Brennan: "Bunch of men that have forgotten what family means..."
SYNOPSIS: The wives of New York gangsters in Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s continue to operate their husbands' rackets after they're locked up in prison.
As an aside, I did not know that this film was based on a DC Vertigo comic book series.
This gangster flick - set in the titular Hell's Kitchen burrow of New York circa the late seventies - has some serious balls, pun intended. It centers on three wives who step up when their Irish-American criminal husbands are…
(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
not funny enough to be a comedy, not dramatic enough to be a drama, and not exciting enough to be a thriller. this film juggles a poor screenplay, mediocre direction, piss poor visuals, and fails miserably. it's bland and uninteresting. the characters aren't fleshed out enough, the plot jumps all over the place with little explanation, and it just flat out doesn't make sense in a lot of places. the performances were good, but other than that? it's not worth your time. just watch widows (2018) instead.
"Now we got no money because of a shit group of men that don't know the meaning of family" - Kathy,
- 2019 Ranked: boxd.it/2lsbC
The poster for this movie should be a human nose with the word gender written on it.
P.S. All three of them are great in this they just deserve a much better script.
about halfway through turned into an exercise in just keeping myself awake/not flying into a irritable rage
I really wanted to like this film, but it kept getting in its own way, with choppy editing, story developments I just couldn't buy, and pretty shallow characters. In the end, I knew practically nothing about the three female leads that didn't relate to how they felt about the men in their lives, or in one case, their kids. There were a number of scenes that didn't seem like they were attached to anything in the narrative. And most of the crime story hinges on the idea that the three women here just went to everyone in a protection racket and said "Pay us instead, we'll protect you better," and everyone did, but we never see any sign that they…
Wow they really wasted these actresses on this script huh?
This had weak writing and cringey dialogue. I’m also getting sick of movies that are so in your face about how they’re Feminist movies. You can write a movie about strong women without also patting yourself on the back about it at the same time! I don’t need you to so obviously point out repeatedly that the women in this story are Strong. At a point, it becomes condescending.
The editing was so whack lmao there were a lot of weird hard cuts away from one conversation immediately into the middle of another conversation and it was weird and confusing. It felt like I was never actually seeing the end…
It’s not great but it’s also not terrible, you know it’s one of those film you watch on a Sunday when you don’t really want to watch or do anything so you put something easy to consume on and this happened to be it on this day.
Um filme regular, mas não deixa de ser legal de ver. Figurino e ambientação do final dos anos 70 bem bacanas, mas o meu destaque vai para a forma com que as mulheres conduziram suas ações para se tonarem as chefes da gangue, com inteligência e buscando o bem coletivo. Achei bem bacana!
Scorsese but girlboss💅🏼 Wasn’t the worst thing I’ve seen and wasn’t the best either.
three incredible leads wasted on a horrible script. that is how you describe this movie.
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