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Microsoft Sway

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Sway is a digital storytelling app that makes it easy to create visually striking presentations,...

Unfold: Stories

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Unfold: Stories let’s you create beautiful and engaging stories for Instagram, Snapchat and...

Bostonian916 (449 KP) rated The Kitchen (2019) in Movies

Aug 17, 2020

The Kitchen (2019)

2019 | Action, Crime, Drama

6.1

(18 Ratings)

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I'm always a sucker for a good gangster film, and at its core, that's exactly what this is.

Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish both step way outside their comedic comfort zones while Elisabeth Moss stands on her solid foundation in her role. They are all wives of gangsters who have been sent away for their crimes. They are assured that the remaining mob members will continue to make sure that they are taken care of properly in the absence of their spouses. Things fall apart when leadership decides that the amount of "support" being rendered for the wives doesn't need to be what it has been in the past. The women take matters into their own hands and decide to form their own ring of profit making endeavors.

This of course all comes to a climactic end suitable for such a story. However, my chief issue with the storytelling is that I felt like Moss's character was kind of treated as an afterthought. Early in the story there is an obvious goal in mind of the film makers and there is a huge opportunity to do so. But somewhere along the way that part of the story kind of fell by the wayside and when it was returned to it wasn't done justice.