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‘ The Menu’ Review Anya Taylor-Joy Crosses Kitchen Knives with Ralph Fiennes

TIFF A satire that becomes a thriller and ultimately a horror movie Mark Mylod s latest grabs your attention and never lets it go

Christian Blauvelt Sep 11, 2022 2:17 am @ctblauvelt Share This Article Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Email Print Talk Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult in “The Menu” What kind of movie is this? Asking yourself that question can be one of the most exciting experiences in moviegoing.
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It happens a number of times during Mark Mylod&#8217;s &#8220;The Menu,&#8221; a movie that combines genres in the cinematic equivalent of fusion cuisine: it&#8217;s a satire, then a thriller, and ultimately a horror movie. Seth Reiss and Will Tracy's script landed on the 2019 Black List, and it&#8217;s easy to see why: with its trapped-diners premise and the evisceration of those with power, it&#8217;s &#8220;The Exterminating Angel&#8221; for the franchise era.
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It happens a number of times during Mark Mylod’s “The Menu,” a movie that combines genres in the cinematic equivalent of fusion cuisine: it’s a satire, then a thriller, and ultimately a horror movie. Seth Reiss and Will Tracy's script landed on the 2019 Black List, and it’s easy to see why: with its trapped-diners premise and the evisceration of those with power, it’s “The Exterminating Angel” for the franchise era.
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Deep-pocketed foodie Tyler (Nicholas Hoult) takes new girlfriend Margot (Anya-Taylor Joy) on a trip to Hawthorne, an ultra-exclusive restaurant on a private island. It&#8217;s a foreboding place.
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Deep-pocketed foodie Tyler (Nicholas Hoult) takes new girlfriend Margot (Anya-Taylor Joy) on a trip to Hawthorne, an ultra-exclusive restaurant on a private island. It’s a foreboding place.
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Dead trees killed by saltwater on the eroding beach have their gnarled trunks shoot up through the sand. The culinary staff at the restaurant sleep on site in barracks-like living quarters, rows of cots lined up next to each other: after all, they have to rise early to harvest, fish, or slaughter that day&#8217;s future meals. Their personal lives and identities are subsumed into a kind of kitchen cult and the restaurant itself is &nbsp;designed with the modernism-meets-minimalism effect of the house in &#8220;Parasite.&#8221; All of this is presented as selling points to the 12 guests invited for this one very special meal.
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Dead trees killed by saltwater on the eroding beach have their gnarled trunks shoot up through the sand. The culinary staff at the restaurant sleep on site in barracks-like living quarters, rows of cots lined up next to each other: after all, they have to rise early to harvest, fish, or slaughter that day’s future meals. Their personal lives and identities are subsumed into a kind of kitchen cult and the restaurant itself is  designed with the modernism-meets-minimalism effect of the house in “Parasite.” All of this is presented as selling points to the 12 guests invited for this one very special meal.
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Taylor-Joy delivers her most arresting performance yet as the film's only multi-dimensional character. She sees through Tyler&#8217;s nonsense and quietly rebels against the theater of food from the start.&nbsp;And she projects an intelligence, whether it's staring down Tyler in disbelief or calling out the chef for his self-righteous egotism, as if she&#8217;s seeing the underlying code of the Matrix. Much of this movie is Taylor-Joy looking at it all in disbelief.
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Taylor-Joy delivers her most arresting performance yet as the film's only multi-dimensional character. She sees through Tyler’s nonsense and quietly rebels against the theater of food from the start. And she projects an intelligence, whether it's staring down Tyler in disbelief or calling out the chef for his self-righteous egotism, as if she’s seeing the underlying code of the Matrix. Much of this movie is Taylor-Joy looking at it all in disbelief.
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For &#8220;The Menu&#8221; to say more, it would need richer, more fully developed characters beyond Margot. You want to learn more about why Chef Slowik allowed grievances to dominate his life, but it&#8217;s too thinly sliced to make any kind of indictment against our rising vendetta culture that's become an economy in its own right. Yet &#8220;The Menu&#8221; does do one thing exceptionally well: It holds your attention and makes you think for a time that any outcome is possible.
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That alone is something to salivate over. <h3>Grade B</h3> &#8220;The Menu&#8221; premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. It will be released by Searchlight Pictures on Friday, November 18.
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