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To eat or not to eat? That is the question posed to a group of affluent diners in the twisted culinary satire The Menu. The Searchlight Pictures film directed by Mark Mylod follows an esteemed, award-winning chef named Julian Slowik (Ralph Fiennes) during the celebratory last night at his five-star island restaurant Hawthorne.
Enticed by the exclusivity of the mysterious island eatery are several high-profile guests including a washed-up movie star, three annoying tech bros, an elderly couple, a famed food critic, an over-enthused foodie (Nicholas Hoult) and his morose girlfriend (Anya Taylor-Joy).
They await a personalized multi-course menu that, to their horror, grows increasingly more exploitative and violent than the last.
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