Deborah Ross

Ralph Fiennes at his most terrifying: The Menu reviewed

Like Triangle of Sadness, this film gives the rich a good kicking and is nastily fun, but it runs out of ideas by the third act

Ralph Fiennes at his most still – and terrifying – as Chef Slowik in The Menu 
issue 19 November 2022

The Menu is a comedy-horror-thriller set in an exclusive restaurant on a private island and it gives the rich a good kicking, like The Triangle of Sadness, except here they manage to keep their food down, mercifully. (At $1,200 a head, you’d hope so.) But the diners are not spared otherwise, and it’s nastily fun, if not pure evil, and should possibly come with a warning: after this, you will never, ever wish to dine anywhere that isn’t Nando’s.

The film is directed by Mike Mylod with a screenplay by Will Tracy and Seth Reiss.

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