La Cocina
2024 · Movie · R · 139 min · ★ 6.9 · 70% critics
In a sweltering Times Square restaurant kitchen, a cook without legal status tries to hold onto a fragile romance while surviving the relentless pace and power dynamics of the job. When cash goes missing from a register, suspicion spreads through the staff, turning everyday stress into a pressure-cooker conflict.
Also known as The Kitchen
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Details
- Original title
- La cocina
- Years
- 2024
- Release date
- 2024-10-25
- Language
- Spanish
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 139 min
- Critic score
- 70/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 (96 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a tense, immersive workplace drama about immigrant life and moral pressure, with constant conflict and urgency; Not for you if you dislike abrasive characters, heavy themes, or long runtimes like Boiling Point.
Pros: intense kitchen chaos; striking black-and-white look; strong ensemble energy | Cons: very long runtime; too much dialogue; uneven character depth
Themes
- new york city
- immigration
- restaurant
- times square
- abortion
- kitchen
Cast & crew
Raúl Briones
as Pedro
Rooney Mara
as Julia
Anna Díaz
as Estela
Motell Gyn Foster
as Nonzo
Laura Gómez
as Laura
Oded Fehr
as Rashid
James Waterston
as Mark
Lee Sellars
as Chef
Eduardo Olmos
as Luis
Spenser Granese
as Max
Directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios