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The Menu (2022)

★ 7.2 · 6,126 ratings on TMDB

Painstakingly prepared. Brilliantly executed.

The Menu poster★ 7.2

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.

DirectorMark Mylod
CastAimee Carrero, Anya Taylor-Joy, Arturo Castro, Janet McTeer, John Leguizamo, Nicholas Hoult
GenresComedy, Horror
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The Menu keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing class, exploitation, power, culinary, revenge.

zero-distanceUSclassexploitationpowerculinaryrevenge
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

Ultraviolet (2006)E4/E11 · rare rung · exploitation, powerKingsman: The Secret Service (2015)E11/E14 · rare rung · class, powerGodzilla vs. Kong (2021)E6/E11 · rare rung · exploitation, powerKing Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)E6/E12 · rare rung · exploitation, powerDragonheart: Vengeance (2021)E10/E12 · rare rung · power, revengeThe First Purge (2018)E10/E11 · class, power

Same people

Shared director or cast.

Ali G Indahouse (2002)dir. Mark MylodWhat's Your Number? (2011)dir. Mark MylodThe Big White (2005)dir. Mark MylodWuthering Heights (1992)Janet McTeerHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)Ralph FiennesMad Max: Fury Road (2015)Nicholas Hoult