The Kitchen

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

The problem with it is that it's incredibly unbalanced in the way that it doesn't ever know how to exactly deal with the sort of the tougher subject matter, the violence, which it deals with.

Moss, somehow, retains her dignity but McCarthy and Haddish are made to look like amateurs. I'm a fan of both women. Get me outta this kitchen.

[A] thuddingly inept crime picture.

It's a tonal mess, occasionally parody-poor (a hilarious amount of deadpan funeral scenes) and frequently makes no sense, especially when Moss's mousy Claire becomes a bloodthirsty killing machine.

The shallowness of the depiction would matter less if the story made a modicum of sense.

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

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.

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.

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.