The film fares better as a tightly constructed exercise in horror, like a cross between the mechanized death of a Saw movie and the eat-the-rich grotesquerie of Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 19, 2022

The Menu is an atmospheric, claustrophobic thriller with a killer ending, but manages to fall short in serving up a full-course of deranged delights.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 10, 2022

Slowik’s slow-cooked revenge against social inequality, bad taste, cruel critique, culinary pretension and even ‘fast food’ cinema is unsettling and accusatory.

| Dec 7, 2022

It’s easy to point and laugh at the rich, or feel a sense of vindication... But you still walk away feeling hungry.

| Dec 6, 2022

Stylishly photographed by Peter Deming, The Menu becomes increasingly creepy with each new course.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 3, 2022

I don't think I necessarily felt satisfied by the climax of this film, but it's a very stylish affair. I very much enjoyed being in the world it's set in. It left me hungry for more, I guess.

| Dec 3, 2022

The marvelous, multitalented Ralph Fiennes is the best thing on the menu in this clever culinary delight.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 2, 2022

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

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 30, 2022

Entertaining and slight. It's an amuse-bouche, not the whole meal.

| Nov 30, 2022

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.

| Nov 22, 2022

The line between serf and nobleman slowly disappears with the delivery of each course to a guest’s table, which only augments how dazzlingly unhinged this madness proves to be.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 22, 2022

Subtle it’s not, but it’s maliciously entertaining. It turns out that revenge on the ultra-wealthy is a dish best seared over a naked flame.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 20, 2022

The next time you're hungry, it just might have you opting for the drive-thru.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 19, 2022

To ding this for not completely sticking the landing -- from going from fulfilling to simply filling -- is to ignore so much of what this straight-outta-Jacobean-theatre chamber piece does right.

| Nov 18, 2022

More food for thought than your average glossy fall thriller tends to offer.

| Nov 18, 2022

If the film’s raison d’etre is to show up the vapidity of modern art, then it produces no argument better than itself. Dumb but delicious, The Menu is a feast for the senses, if not the brain.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2022

The Willy Wonka storyline is aped here, as one naughty guest after another faces up to their fate in a thinly disguised morality play.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2022

Mylod’s stew saves its most mouth-watering plate for the last. That’s why it’s fiendishly delightful.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 18, 2022

Foodie culture gets hilariously torched as a celebrity chef, acted to pretentious perfection by Ralph Fiennes, holds his customers, except for a deliciously defiant Anya Taylor-Joy, to the fire at his restaurant from hell. It’s all delectably unhinged.

| Nov 18, 2022

What makes The Menu more satiating than other recent, glitzier skewerings of ultracapitalism is that its satire isn’t so glib that it leaves you feeling comfortably outside of the proceedings.

| Nov 18, 2022