{"id":28713,"date":"2022-09-15T12:33:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T12:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=28713"},"modified":"2022-09-15T12:33:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T12:33:46","slug":"the-menu-review-fiennes-leads-dark-comedy-horror-that-entertains-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=28713","title":{"rendered":"The Menu Review: Fiennes Leads Dark Comedy Horror That Entertains & Surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"
Audiences may not have much of an appetite after watching the film, but the experience, like Slowik\u2019s promise, will be one they won\u2019t soon forget. Directed by Mark Mylod from a screenplay by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy, The Menu is a dark, twisted satire that will leave one\u2019s palette satisfied. Filled with ambitious twists and turns that the audience will not see coming, The Menu is a dish best served with a side of intensity and anticipation. With a solid, if disturbing, performance by Ralph Fiennes, the dark horror comedy takes a stab at exploring class, the service industry, and the ways in which the wealthy ruin just about everything. The Menu opens with Margot (Anya Taylor-Joy) and Tyler (Nicholas Hoult) boarding a boat to an island where the five-star restaurant Hawthorne, run by Chef Slowik (Ralph Fiennes) and his second-in-command Elsa (Hong Chau), is located. They \u2014 along with a snobby movie star (John Leguizamo) and his assistant (Aimee Carrero), rich finance bros (Arturo Castro, Rob Yang, Mark St. Cyr), Hawthorne\u2019s loyal customers (Judith Light, Reed Birney), and food critic Lillian Bloom (Janet McTeer) and her editor (Paul Adelstein) \u2014 are in for the night of their lives. What begins as an evening of fine dining and food as conceptual art becomes a strange and terrifying ordeal.\n<\/div>\n
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