Watch the trailer for the Top Boy star’s new Netflix film The Kitchen

Netflix has released the first trailer for The Kitchen, which marks the directorial debut of Daniel Kaluuya.

Kaluuya co-directed the dystopian sci-fi film with Kibwe Tavares and also co-wrote the film with Joe Murtagh. It’s based on an idea that Kaluuya, Tavares and producer Daniel Emmerson came up with a decade ago in a barbershop.

As shown in the trailer, The Kitchen takes place in a future version of London some 20 years in the future, where the gap between rich and poor has been stretched to the limit, with all social housing eradicated.

All that remains is “The Kitchen,” a community that refuses to move out of the house. Izi (played by Top Boy star Kane Robinson) is one such resident and along with 12-year-old Benji (Jedaiah Bannerman), the pair battle it out in a system stacked against them.

The Kitchen will be released in UK cinemas January 12, 2024 before it hit Netflix January 19, 2024so you already have something for your watch list in the new year.

The film also stars former Arsenal and England footballer Ian Wright as pirate radio DJ Lord Kitchener alongside Hope Ikpoku Jr, BackRoad Gee, Cristale, Teija Kabs and Demmy Ladipo.

Following its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival in October, The Kitchen has a strong 83% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from its early reviews.

“An authentic vision of a nightmarish, dystopian future that will ring alarm bells for any city dweller familiar with the depressing effects of gentrification,” wrote Deadline in one of several positive reviews.

IndieWire noted, “If the relationship drama at its core doesn’t quite connect with the elegant brutalism of its visual language, there’s still much to admire in both aspects.”

The Kitchen will be released in selected UK cinemas on 12 January 2024 and on Netflix on 19 January 2024.

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