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

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

Succession and Game of Thrones director Mark Mylod returns with the new food-themed horror-thriller The Menu, co-starring Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau, John Leguizamo, and Aimee Carrero as patrons in a haute cuisine restaurant where the chef has lethal designs on everyone who eats his food. Debuts in theaters Nov. 18.

The film offers a cornucopia of pleasures.

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.

The Menu samples some familiar, but tasty, flavors

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

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

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

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 eaten there. Some day. When that cost-of-living raise finally arrives.But satire, even wobbly satire, doesn’t require firsthand knowledge of a subject. Pretentious foodies are like pretentious anybodys, with cultural critics high among them: They can’t […]

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

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

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

An analysis of Mark Mylod’s ‘The Menu,’ starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes, a culinary culture satire as funny as it is dark.

Toronto film festival: Ralph Fiennes is a sinister chef with a deviously designed menu in a fun, if throwaway, stew of class satire and torture porn

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

A bunch of ultra-wealthy foodies get more than they bargained for in this riotous black comedy starring Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy

Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult all excel in this tale of a reclusive chef whose diners are served more than they expected

Restaurant satire cuts into class and the culinary arts

“What are we eating? A Rolex?” So quips Margot (Anya Taylor-Joy) in Mark Mylod's “The Menu” as she waits with her date, Tyler (Nicholas Hoult), a devoted foodie who has landed them a reservation at the exclusive restaurant Hawthorne.

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. A dark satire that skewers privilege and evisceratesthe famous, the wealthy, and professional...

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

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.

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."

It comes as no surprise to see a film like The Menu come out of a major studio like Searchlight Pictures. Populism has been around for a good while, but it’s having another moment thanks to various economic crises, an ongoing pandemic, major wealth inequality, and a general public malaise with no end in sight