Film Review: 'The Menu': Hostile Haute Cuisine Versus Pretentious One-PercentersR | 1h 46min | Drama, Comedy, Satire, Mystery, Thriller | 18 November 2022 (USA)
The second film this week to feature a maniacal, uber-obsessive "artiste" chef, "The Menu" is a searing satirical thriller that lacerates and skewers both those who conceive and create impossibly ornate and fussy dishes and those who view eating them as gastronomical nirvana.
In a manner not unlike that of the nonfictional Chef Charlie Trotter in "Love, Charlie," the fictional Julian Slowik (Ralph Fiennes) demands nothing less than absolute, unerring perfection from himself and his sycophantic staff, all of whom approach their work with the zest, zeal, and intensity of Navy SEALs....
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