Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss star as mob wives in late-'70s New York who take matters into their own hands. Read TheKitchen review:
scores a casting trifecta: To play a trio of working-class wives turned protection-racket honchos, who better than Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss, actors with badass bona fides and attitude to spare?
With DP Maryse Alberti, production designer Shane Valentino and costume designer Sarah Edwards, Berloff has nonetheless conjured a vivid evocation of 1978 Manhattan in all its gritty glory. The garbage-strewn streets and graffiti-emblazoned subway cars might be nothing new to moviegoers, but specific to this saga is the way the neon squalor of Times Square punctuates the drab palette of Hell's Kitchen, the swath of midtown where the reigning Irish mob's territorial influence is fraying.
At the center of the story are three sort-of friends in varying states of marital accommodation to low-rung mobsters. McCarthy's Kathy considers her bond with Jimmy a solid one and looks anguished when a judge announces the men's three-year sentence. Claire , on the other hand, responds with a Mona Lisa smile, and, having viewed a glimpse of her sadistic brute of a husband in domestic action, we understand both her pleasure and her restraint.
In light of those socially ingrained challenges, but, more vitally, in light of the need for narrative tension, the ease with which Kathy, Ruby and Claire take over the local underground economy is absurd. There's barely a moment's hesitation among Hell's Kitchen's mom-and-popsters as they switch their protection-money allegiance to the new queens in town.
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