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“The Kitchen” couldn’t take the heat.
Burned by negative reviews and pitched competition, Warner Bros. and New Line’s heist thriller — starring Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss — opened with a dismal $5.5 million when it debuted in 2,765 theaters. The people who did venture out to see the film this weekend weren’t all that enthused, giving it a mediocre B- CinemaScore, signaling that word-of-mouth might not bode well for “The Kitchen” in weeks to come.
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