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Restaurant satire cuts into class and the culinary arts

Anya-Taylor Joy and Ralph Fiennes lead an excellent cast in 'The Menu,' director Mark Mylod's dark social satire about exclusive foodie culture.

Foodie culture is slayed, literally, in this expert black comedy.

Best known for directing numerous episodes of HBO’s Succession, Mark Mylod serves up a vicious skewering of social inequality, culinary pretension, cruel c...

Director Mark Mylod and writers Seth Reiss and Will Tracy carefully construct a multi-course fine dining tasting menu of satirical delights and frights...

Ralph Fiennes plays a ruthless chef who serves up surprises to his diners, including Anya Taylor-Joy

Leading a well-cast ensemble, Ralph Fiennes plays a mad genius of a chef whose meal for the dining elite starts snooty and turns deadly.

I’m reviewing the food-snobbery-will-kill-you comedy “The Menu,” never having eaten at, well — name the Michelin-starred restaurant and I haven’t e...

The film, starring Ralph Fiennes, shines in its satirical depiction of the upper echelons of the restaurant world. But it could have gone further.

A group of wealthy arrive on a mysterious island and receive the meal of a lifetime in Mark Mylod’s psychological thriller The Menu.

Ralph Fiennes is a fine-dining chef with some surprises up his sleeve. Read the Empire review.

Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy go knives out at the restaurant from hell in 'The Menu.'

THE MENU is a deeply satirical thriller now out on HBO Max (US). It is razor-sharp and offers many surprises. Read our The Menu review >

A group of epicureans travel to a remote island for the ultimate dining experience in the 'Succession' director's feature premiering at the Toronto Film Fest...

Both films float around themes of class and corrupted wealth, but ultimately say very little about either thing.

Think ‘Get Out’ or ‘The Hunt’, but about culinary snobbery

Anya Taylor-Joy battles Ralph Fiennes in "The Menu" [Review], a horror thriller by way of "The Exterminating Angel."

A review of Mark Mylod's haute cuisine satire, The Menu, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, and Ralph Fiennes.

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Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult head an all-star cast in the philosophical culinary horror-comedy 'The Menu.'

Mark Mylod's one-dimensional dark comedy serves up an undercooked feast of profoundly smug commentary.

You'll cringe, laugh, and wince.

Robert Bound and guests Hannah Strong and Leila Latif review ‘The Menu’, the new film starring Ralph Fiennes, and take...

Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy face off in this pitch-black satire of class and high-end dining.

Haute cuisine is a metaphor for high society in this murderous satire. You may never eat another s’more again.

Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy lead a bloody chiller about a haute-cuisine chef who turns on his patrons

A solid ensemble cast, also including Nicholas Hoult and Anya Taylor-Joy, shines in this send-up of foodie culture blended with a horror-thriller.

Perhaps the thing that makes The Menu so delicious isthe taste that accompanies watching the ultra-rich get trussed up and stuffedlike Thanksgiving turkeys. ...

On three single-setting dramas from TIFF, including films starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Margaret Qualley, and Sterling K. Brown. 

Director Mark Mylod satirizes a very specific kind of elitism here with his wildly over-the-top depiction of the gourmet food world.

“The Menu” is a darkly funny, culture-skewering satire that’s easier to defend on cinematic grounds than more — you know — logical ones. It takes i...

Part scalpel-sharp satire and part medium-rare horror flick, this fine-dining thriller relies on a hot cast and a dish that's best served cold.

Hungry for social satire? The Menu is pretty palatable. It follows other recent films pitting the rich against the poor: Ready or Not (2019), The Platform (2...

Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes anchor 'Succession' director Mark Mylod's caviar-black move to features

Yes, Chef.

The pitch-black comedy examines the ethics of “eating the rich”—and the hypocrisy of “ethical consumption.”

The Menu is as much fun as it is ephemeral. Which is just the kind of empty-calorie philosophy that the film’s lead character would espouse himself

'The Menu' may star a great cast like Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Ralph Fiennes, and more, but it's pretty smug and self-satisfied.

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Marketed as an upscale spin on horror, ‘The Menu’ interrogates a culture that has taken the chef from faceless grunt to something of a cult leader

Less of a horror film than a dark comedy about art, its practitioners and the consumers who may or may not deserve transcendence

’The Menu’ skewers foodies and the art world in general in 107 minutes of horror-comedy genre perfection.

The food-world satire erupts into class warfare, but strains against stereotypes at every turn.

It's at once a Michelin Star version of "Saw" and a tasty satire of what high-end dining has become.

Ralph Fiennes is a celebrity chef from hell in a film that feels like an unhinged sibling to The Bear.