The Menu (2022) poster
2022 · thriller · comedy · horror

The Menu

Directed by Mark Mylod1h 47m2022
ElsewhereIMDb7.2496kRT88%Metacritic71TMDB7.26k
  • sombre
  • intense
  • inventive
  • cold
Movie DNA

Sombre, steady, measured thriller / comedy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.

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A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.

Our read · The Menu (2022) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive thriller · comedy · horror entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.

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You want razor-sharp satire served as an escalating dinner-from-hell thriller.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakena slow buildgrips by minute 20attention 5/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencegoresuicide theme

Skip it tonightYou came hungry or can't stomach dark culinary horror.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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