<em>The Kitchen</em> Is an Amoral, Atonal Mess of a Movie
Not even Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elisabeth Moss can salvage this confusing attempt at a gangster film.
The glamor of the gangster film is as old as Hollywood itself. There’s transgressive appeal to a mob boss rising to power and keeping it, through whatever murder and graft is necessary. Andrea Berloff’s directorial debut, , is steeped in the iconography of 1970s crime classics such as and , aiming to invoke a seedier New York where only intimidation and might are needed to rise to the top. However, the movie
