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- 2022
- R
- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
- 1 h 47 m
- 2022
- R
- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
- 1 h 47 m
Summary A couple (Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult) travels to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef (Ralph Fiennes) has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
Directed By: Mark Mylod
Written By: Seth Reiss, Will Tracy
- 2022
- R
- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
- 1 h 47 m
- 2022
- R
- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
- 1 h 47 m
The Menu
71
6.7
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Summary A couple (Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult) travels to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef (Ralph Fiennes) has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
Directed By: Mark Mylod
Written By: Seth Reiss, Will Tracy
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 45 Critic Reviews
71
80% Positive
36 Reviews
36 Reviews
18% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
2% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 45 Critic Reviews
71
80% Positive
36 Reviews
36 Reviews
18% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
2% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
The Menu is the most entertaining ensemble film since Knives Out, and the most engaging horror-satire since Get Out. But no matter what comparisons and assumptions are made, The Menu will not be the movie you expect.
Mylod’s stew saves its most mouth-watering plate for the last. That’s why it’s fiendishly delightful.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 290 User Ratings
6.7
67% Positive
193 Ratings
193 Ratings
20% Mixed
59 Ratings
59 Ratings
13% Negative
38 Ratings
38 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 290 User Ratings
6.7
67% Positive
193 Ratings
193 Ratings
20% Mixed
59 Ratings
59 Ratings
13% Negative
38 Ratings
38 Ratings
As great as a western, as brilliance as a horror movie, if it could be
Only those who are very naturalistic in their childhood, very inquisitive and interactive in their adolescent, and very adventurous and interactive in their youth and in middle-aged people who think more will connect to this movie 100%. And the interesting thing was that I get hungry with the slightest mention of food in movies, but I didn't get hungry in this movie! The chemistry between Nicholas Hoult and De Armas was good, but Hoult is one of those actors who can play two leading characters. In terms of the way of paying for structure of the film and some other main elements, the film is reminiscent of almost forgotten films like Cabin in the woods 2012..... with the difference that the way the structure is paid here is both more cinematic and more developed. And in the end, the film takes form with difficulty and with the technical knowledge.
The actor playing the role of the chef is one of the most suitable actors that I have seen in the last few years that matches his role.... (I think he is more suitable for roles where an ordinary person , almost without feelings is trying to become a leader and in the end it doesn't success... which of course was not the case here!). The seriousness in the performance is sprinkled throughout the film. We can recognize the perfection of the script in the first thirty minutes of the movie. We know how the director has complete control over things from the sense and power that there's in the back of the performances.
The only thing that needs to be added is when the head chef says to one of his subordinates: "Are you hurting your mind, your body, to keep satisfied people you never see?" The purpose of this sentence is sympathy and its meaning at the same time and after that is conveyed indirectly and correctly, but it would have been better if it was conveyed directly in the sentence. And if it was like that, it would be more to my liking. The connection between the three issues of the script, the choice of actors and the way to use the dialogue was not in line with my taste, but because it was executed correctly, I consider it a perfect movie.5/5
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This film ended up being my favorite movie of 2022 which was something I wasn't really expecting. Everything from concept to performance to its tightly paced editing, The Menu had it all for me. What impressed me the most about the movie was how it effortlessly balanced multiple genres and subsequent audience expectations. At one moment you're terrified. The next, you're laughing out loud at the absurdity. Finally, you don't know what to feel. I felt the social commentary was obvious as one would expect but I never felt that it was delivered at the expense of the scene's tension or entertainment. Overall, I was really impressed and loved the film. I'm excited to go back and watch it again!
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The Menu is a tightly wound, sharply rendered skewering of the dichotomy between the takers and the givers, or in this case, the eaters and the cooks.
For the right audience, The Menu also succeeds as satire of the darkest possible, hilarious kind, best served with plenty of popcorn.
A movie that starts off as a scalpel-sharp satire, casually slides into becoming a skin-of-your-teeth horror film and ends as a flamebroiled screed in more ways than one, director Mark Mylod’s Grand Guignol take on the master-and-servant relationship of hospitality industries will not suit everyone’s palettes.
The Menu’s straight-faced depiction of absurd culinary violence may not be imaginative or thrilling, but the film is rarely boring. It’s deep-fried junk disguised as gastronomy; it may not fully satisfy, but it’ll fill a hole.
The pungent whiff of designer cynicism pervades every scene, so not only is it difficult to understand why these diners aren’t taking their business elsewhere (which they absolutely would do if they’re the capitalist scum we’re told they are), but it’s difficult to give two hoots as to whether they stay or go.
Ralph Fiennes is just always incredible everytime he plays a bad guy, a villain, a hateful characters in a good way because he is so good performing it, from Schindler's List when he play a ****, his most iconic one as Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter series, and in The Menu as Julian Slowik, Nicholas Hoult was much less important in the movie than i expected yet he's great and so convincing playing an **** who doesn't give a crap about anything, Anya Taylor-Joy is carrying the whole movie second to Slowik if not the first, and the rest of the cast was also fantastic, people probably expected more gory, bloody, and a real human parts to be served type of movie which i found quite predictable and also quite mainstream, The Menu is more of a poetic film, and if you combined those two it didn't work and the poetic side of it was gone, Memory, The Mess, these poetic dish was brilliant in so many ways without too much **** in it, and sure i wanted to be the more bloody crazy stuff but i also fine with this poetic 106 minutes films that are still insane, intense, super well perform, stylish, and entertaining all the way through, The Menu is incredible!
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Mostly provocation for its own sake, the menu feels like a theater production. The story is based around a chefs obsession with punishing the various perceived sins of a restauranteurs clientele. Its interesting but flawed with a great cast. Doesn't seem to fully commit to the cinematic moods it explores (comedy, mystery, thriller, horror). Entertaining!
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It was a satire on pretentiousness, folks. If nothing else, The Menu is unique. I couldn't help but feel it should be a comedy instead of horror. For something to be truly horrifying the audience would have to care about the characters. Their back stories were hazy at best, and I found myself not caring about their fates. Not a bad flick all in all.
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The first half of the movie was good and i could feel the tension raises a bit but by the end of the movie i start to yawn and couldn't wait for it to finish, i just don't get it they could have done so many better things with the story but they decided to make it boring and pointless.
I do think however there was some originality and the performance by Ralph Fiennes was excellent and i feel like he was the one who kept me watching till the end.
Can't recommend, SKIP!
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This is something of a hybrid genre that I'd call "slapstick horror." I can see it works for some people, but for me the attempt took out both the humor and - once the first shock landed - the horror. It soon became so redundant, so full of itself that by the final gag (which I'm sure the creators thought hilarious), I was wishing I could get this 107 minutes of my life back.
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Production Company
Hyperobject Industries,
Searchlight Pictures
Release Date Nov 18, 2022
Duration 1 h 47 m
Rating R
Tagline Wonderful surprises await you all.
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
Columbus Film Critics Association
• 7 Nominations
Hawaii Film Critics Society
• 4 Nominations
