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Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Ralph Fiennes, John Leguizamo, Judith Light, Hong Chau, Janet McTeer

OUR RATING: ★★★★☆

Story:

Dark horror comedy directed by Mark Mylod. The Menu (2022) centers on a couple, Margot and Tyler (Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult), who travel to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant run by celebrity chef Slowik (Ralph Fiennes), who has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.

 

Our Favorite Quotes:

'There is no way to avoid the mess. The mess you make of your life, of your body, of your sanity, by giving everything you have to pleasing people you will never know.' - Chef Slowik (The Menu) Click To Tweet

 

Best Quotes


 

Tyler: Babe. Please don’t smoke. It’ll kill your palate.
Margot: Then my palate will die happy.


 

Margot: How do they turn a profit?
Tyler: Twelve-fifty a head, that’s how.
Margot: You’re f***ing kidding, right? What, are we eating, a Rolex?


 

Tyler: It’s official. Tonight will be madness.


 

Tyler: The lemon pearls are made with alginate.
Margot: Alginate, as in…
Tyler: As in algae.
Margot: Right. Yeah. Pond scum. Delicious.


 

Tyler: You need the mouthfeel of the mignonette.
Margot: Please don’t say “mouthfeel”.
Tyler: Too late. Mouthfeel.


 

Elsa: Margot. Welcome. We’ll endeavor to make your evening as pleasant as possible.


 

Margot: We have reached the base camp of Mount Bulls**t. This is insane.


 

Dave: [after they’ve been told that the meat is aged for 152 days] So, what happens if you serve it on the hundred and fifty-third day? Does all hell break loose, or…
Elsa: Well, I suppose the bacteria would introduce itself to the consumer’s bloodstream and spread into their spinal membranes, after which point, he or she would become incapacitated, and shortly thereafter expire. So, yes. All hell would break loose.

 

'Taste. Savor. Relish. Consider every morsel that you place inside your mouth. Be mindful. But do not eat.' - Chef Slowik (The Menu) Click To Tweet

 

Elsa: We harvest. We ferment. We slaughter. We marinate. We liquify. We spherify. We gel.
Margot: [to Tyler] They gel?
Elsa: We gel!


 

Soren: You guys ever get burned out, or…
Elsa: “Burned out?”
Soren: Yeah, sorry. Sorry. Like tired of doing the same thing?
Elsa: Chef holds himself to the highest standard, and so do we. We never burn anything unless by design, to make delicious.


 

Tyler: Chefs, they play with the raw materials of life itself. And death itself.


 

Tyler: It’s art on the edge of the abyss, which is where God works too. It’s the same.


 

Chef Slowik: Good evening. Welcome to Hawthorne. I’m Julian Slowik, and tonight it’ll be our pleasure to feed you. Over the next few hours, you will ingest fat, salt, sugar, protein, bacteria, fungi, various plants and animals. And at times, entire ecosystems. But I have to beg of you one thing. It’s just one. Do not eat. Taste. Savor. Relish. Consider every morsel that you place inside your mouth. Be mindful. But do not eat. Our menu is too precious for that. And look around you. Here we are, on this island. Accept. Accept all of it. And forgive. And on that note, food!

 

'Bread. It is, and has always been, the food of the common man.' - Chef Slowik (The Menu) Click To Tweet

 

Chef Slowik: What happens inside this room is meaningless compared to what happens outside in nature, in the soil, in the water, in the air. We are but a frightened nanosecond. Nature is timeless. Enjoy.
Margot: [to Tyler] That’s a cheery thought.


 

Margot: Are you crying?
Tyler: It’s just that I find it all very moving. It’s all so beautiful. It’s almost too beautiful to eat.


 

Margot: [referring to Slowik] Tyler, you’re the customer. You’re paying him to serve you. It doesn’t really matter whether he likes you or not.
Tyler: Right. Wait. What does that mean?
Margot: Nothing. Relax. Just eat your rock.


 

Lillian: The flavors are there. It’s very clean. It’s very thalassic.
Ted: Thalassic?
Lillian: Oceanic.

 

'Maybe there are some rules that you should give a f*** about. Like, I don't know, giving food to people at a restaurant.' - Margot (The Menu) Click To Tweet

 

Lillian: We’re eating the ocean.
Ted: We’re eating the ocean.


 

Margot: [referring to Slowik clapping his hands] Is he going to keep doing that?


 

Felicity: Not going to serve bread at a restaurant known for their bread. That’s sweet.


 

Movie Star: I got to say that the s**t around the total absence of the bread is like really good.


 

Ted: I mean, it’s a little outrageous, isn’t it?
Lillian: It’s fiendish, really.

 

'Sometimes all you need is a good cup of tea.' - Chef Slowik (The Menu) Click To Tweet

 

Tyler: The game is trying to guess what the overarching theme of the entire meal is going to be. You won’t know until the end.


 

Tyler: He’s telling a story. That’s what makes his food so exciting. He’s not just a chef. He’s a storyteller. And he doesn’t give a f*** about the rules.
Margot: Call me the girl next door, but maybe there are some rules that you should give a f*** about. Like, I don’t know, giving food to people at a restaurant.
Tyler: Dearest, no one would ever call you the girl next door.


 

Elsa: [to Soren] You will eat less than you desire, and more than you deserve. It’s a pleasure to serve you.


 

Chef Slowik: You haven’t touched your food
Margot: There is no food.
Chef Slowik: Well, no. This is food.

 

'We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor. It must be demanded by the oppressed.' - Chef Slowik (The Menu) Click To Tweet

 

Chef Slowik: Please eat. The menu only makes sense if you eat.
Margot: But you told us not to eat.
Chef Slowik: That is not what I meant, madam. And you know it.


 

Chef Slowik: The next course is called Memory. And that is what it’s meant to evoke. A memory.


 

Chef Slowik: [referring to his father, who beat his mother] Now, I suppose I should’ve stabbed him in the throat that evening. But we’re not so smart when we’re young. It was, as you can imagine, as a very memorable taco night.

 

'I thought tonight was a night of hard home truths. This is one of them. You cook with obsession, not love.' - Margot (The Menu) Click To Tweet

 

Elsa: These are tortillas, which contain EchoBrite’s tax records, and other documents, showing how your company has created invoices with fake charges.
Bryce: How did you get these?
Elsa: I’m sorry, but Chef never reveals his recipes.
Soren: Do you know how f***ed you are? We’ll have this place closed by the morning. Do you understand?
Elsa: Oh, no. That won’t be necessary. Enjoy.


 

Soren: It’s a f***ing taco. Okay? It can’t hurt you.
Bryce: Yeah, a f***ing taco that might hold up in court.

 

'We must be cleansed. Made clean. Like martyrs, or heretics, we can be subsumed and made anew.' - Chef Slowik (The Menu) Click To Tweet

 

Tyler: Do you know how long I’ve been trying to get a reservation here?
Margot: No, and I don’t really care.
Tyler: You do not send s**t back to this kitchen, you child. You thank them for even letting you in the door.


 

Margot: You cannot speak to me that way.
Tyler: Actually, I can because, ding dong, I’m the one who’s paying. So maybe, shut up and eat.

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Chef Slowik: You’ve barely eaten the food. Why? I need to know. Why don’t you eat?
Margot: Why do you care?
Chef Slowik: I take my work very seriously, and you’re not eating. And that wounds me.
Margot: I guess I’m just not very hungry.


 

Chef Slowik: Who are you?
Margot: I am Margot.
Chef Slowik: You shouldn’t be here tonight.


 

Chef Slowik: Like me at his age, Jeremy has forsaken everything to achieve his goals. Like mine, his life is pressure. Pressure to put out the best food in the world. And even when all goes right, and the food is perfect, and the customers are happy, and the critics are too, there is no way to avoid the mess. The mess you make of your life, of your body, of your sanity, by giving everything you have to pleasing people you will never know.


 

Chef Slowik: [after Jeremy shoots himself in front of the guests] This is what you’re paying for. This is an exclusive experience.


 

Ted: [referring to Jeremy shooting himself] It looked very real, Lillian. Quite real.
Lillian: This is just theater. It’s stagecraft.
Soren: Is it really?
Lillian: Yes. This is what he does. It’s part of the menu.


 

Richard: No. I’ll handle this.
Elsa: With which hand, Mr. Leibrandt?
Richard: What?
Elsa: With which hand will you handle this? Left or right?
Richard: What the f*** are you saying?
Elsa: Shall we choose?
Richard: Choose what?
Elsa: Very well. Left hand. Ring finger.
Richard: [as the servers grab him] Let me out! Let me out! No!
Elsa: [as a staff member cuts off his ring finger] Mr. Leibrandt, please hold still.


 

Movie Star: This is real, isn’t it? I can’t do a hostage thing. I can’t.
Felicity: Then why don’t you go talk to him? Go talk to him. Because you know him, right?
Movie Star: I made that up.
Felicity: Why?
Movie Star: Because I’m a name-dropping whore. That’s why, okay?


 

Chef Slowik: I’ve served many Margots. You’re not a Margot. No.
Margot: What the f*** does it matter?
Chef Slowik: It matters because this menu, this guest list, this entire evening has been painstakingly planned. And you were not a part of that plan. And spoiling everything. In order to proceed, I have to know where to seat you. With us, or with them. It’s really, it’s very important.
Margot: And then you’ll let me live?
Chef Slowik: Let you live? No! Of course not. Can’t you see that? I mean, that would ruin the menu.


 

Chef Slowik: We’re all going to die tonight. Isn’t that right?
Staff: Yes, Chef!
Chef Slowik: So, the question is, do you want to die with those who give, or with those who take?
Margot: But I die either way? It’s arbitrary.
Chef Slowik: No, it’s not arbitrary. Nothing in this kitchen is arbitrary.


 

Tyler: [to Margot] Goddamit. It’s not f***ing fair. Why do you get a kitchen course? You smoke all day. Can’t even f***ing taste it.


 

Movie Star: Hey, guys. We got to do something, and we can’t be cowards. This worked in a movie I did called The Assault. When they bring their knives and forks, we just storm their kitchen, okay?


 

Chef Slowik: There’s a saying. “Sometimes all you need is a good cup of tea.” I learned that growing up in Bratislava. I’ve found that not only does tea cleanse the palate, but it offers a soothing balm when facing some hard home truths.


 

Chef Slowik: Any questions?
Tyler: Is this bergamot I’m getting, Chef?
Chef Slowik: Yes, it is.


 

Chef Slowik: Think of yourselves as ingredients in a degustation concept.
Soren: What?
Chef Slowik: A tasting concept. Figuratively speaking. I think that is the best way to describe it.


 

Chef Slowik: It wasn’t cod, you donkey. It was halibut. Rare, f***ing spotted halibut.
Anne: What does it matter?
Chef Slowik: It matters to the halibut, Mrs. Leibrandt. And to the artist whose work turns to s**t inside your gut.


 

Chef Slowik: I’ve allowed my work to reach the price point where only the class of people in this room can access it. And I’ve been fooled into trying to satisfy people who could never be satisfied.


 

Soren: Just f***ing tell us how to stop this. We’ll stop it, okay?
Chef Slowik: You can’t stop it.


 

Chef Slowik: Do you hear that silence? Listen. Can you hear it? That silence means, I’m free.


 

Chef Slowik: What have you decided?
Margot: That you were right. I shouldn’t be here. And I say this with respect, because I’m sure that you’re quite brilliant, but all of this is not meant for me.
Chef Slowik: You’re not sure I’m brilliant, so don’t say it. It’s false.


 

Chef Slowik: You belong here with your own breed.
Margot: And what breed is that?
Chef Slowik: With the s**t shovelers. You thought I couldn’t tell? Oh, I know a fellow service industry worker when I see one.


 

Chef Slowik: You know, I know what a bad customer is.


 

Ted: It’s okay.
Lillian: No. We’re going to die tonight.
Ted: Yes, we are.


 

Katherine: Our next course is called Man’s Folly.


 

Chef Slowik: To our male diners, we now offer you the chance to escape. You will be given a forty-five second head start, at which point members of my staff will try and catch you. If they do catch…
Chef Slowik: [as Soren starts running off] Okay. Forty-five seconds starts now.


 

Movie Star: [as the male guests start running off] Hold this.
Felicity: What?
Movie Star: I’m Sorry. Come on. You know I’m awful.
Ted: [to Lillian, as he’s about to run off] You’re a wonderful critic.
Richard: [to Anne as he starts to leave] I’ll send for help first thing.
Chef Slowik: [to Tyler] You too.
Chef Slowik: [to the women left] I’ll leave you to it.


 

Felicity: [as they’re eating] You know, it’s the emoji for me.
Lillian: Umeboshi.


 

Felicity: Are we all really dying tonight?
Katherine: It doesn’t work if you live.
Anne: What doesn’t work?
Katherine: The menu.
Felicity: Why not?
Katherine: It needs an ending that ties everything together conceptually. Otherwise, it just tastes good, and who cares.


 

Margot: Not that you guys give a single, flying f***, but my name is not Margot. It’s Erin. And I’m from Brockton, Massachusetts. So there’s that.


 

Chef Slowik: What were you told ahead of time?
Tyler: You told me it’d be the greatest menu ever created.
Chef Slowik: Right. And? And?
Tyler: And that everyone would die.


 

Chef Slowik: [referring to Margot] So, you hired her knowing she’d die.
Tyler: Yes.
Margot: [she jumps onto Tyler and hits him] You entitled piece of s**t! I’m going to kill you, Tyler!


 

Chef Slowik: [after he’s made Tyler cook] Wow. It’s actually quite bad. You are why the mystery has been drained from our art.


 

Chef Slowik: We strive for perfection, which of course does not exist, and that is a hard truth for me to accept, so please forgive me.


 

Chef Slowik: Do you want to know why you’re being punished?
Movie Star: Sure.
Chef Slowik: I saw the film Calling Doctor Sunshine, and I did not enjoy it.


 

Chef Slowik: What happens to an artist when he loses his purpose? It’s pitiful.


 

Chef Slowik: What school did you go to?
Felicity: Brown.
Chef Slowik: Student loans?
Felicity: No.
Chef Slowik: I’m sorry. You’re dying.


 

Elsa: I take care of the customers so that chef can take care of the menu.


 

Margot: If you don’t mind me asking though, why would you die for him?
Elsa: You will not replace me.


 

Bryce: [as Slowik and his staff bring him a birthday cake] You told them it was my birthday?
Soren: It seemed funny about three hours ago.


 

Chef Slowik: I want you to understand something, Margot. I am a monster. No, was a monster. And a whore. But tonight, everything I’m doing is pure. Egoless. And at last, the pain is almost gone.


 

Chef Slowik: I can no longer be hurt, Margot. As Dr. King said, “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor. It must be demanded by the oppressed.”
Movie Star: Did he just quote Martin Luther King?
Soren: Yep.


 

Chef Slowik: [referring to the Coast Guard] Ask yourselves two things. One, if you really want to be responsible for the death of an innocent man. And two, ask yourselves, this entire evening, why didn’t you all try harder to fight back? To get out of here? Honestly, you probably could have. Something to think about.


 

Coast Guard Officer: Did anybody here call in a distress over the shortwave tonight?
Chef Slowik: We’re not in the habit of serving our guests shortwave radios with their meals.


 

Chef Slowik: [aftet the Coast Guard is revealed to work for Slowik] So, in a kitchen we all work together, or nothing works at all. We work as a team.


 

Chef Slowik: You, Margot from Nebraska. You’ve betrayed our sacred bond of trust. And you’ve shown your craft to be careless. I was wrong. You’re an eater. You’re a taker. Like all the rest.


 

Margot: I said I don’t like your food, and I would like to send it back.
Chef Slowik: I’m sorry to hear that. What about my food is not to your liking?
Margot: For starters, you’ve taken the joy out of eating. Every dish you served tonight has been some intellectual exercise rather than something you want to sit and enjoy. When I eat your food, it tastes like it was made with no love.


 

Chef Slowik: We always cook with love. Don’t we?
Staff: Yes, Chef!
Chef Slowik: And everyone knows love is the most important ingredient.


 

Margot: Come on, Chef. I thought tonight was a night of hard home truths. This is one of them. You cook with obsession, not love.


 

Margot: You’re a chef. Your single purpose on this Earth is to serve people food that they might actually like, and you have failed. You’ve failed. And you’ve bored me. And the worst part is, I’m still f***ing hungry.


 

Margot: You know what I’d really like?
Chef Slowik: Tell me.
Margot: A cheeseburger.
Chef Slowik: Yeah, we can do a cheeseburger.
Margot: A real cheeseburger. Not some fancy, deconstructed avant bulls**t. A real cheeseburger.


 

Chef Slowik: [to Margot] I’ll make you feel as if you’re eating the first cheeseburger you ever ate. The cheap one your parents could barely afford.


 

Margot: [as she takes a bite] Now that is a cheeseburger.


 

Chef Slowik: One cheeseburger to go. And a gift bag. Thank you for dining at Hawthorn.
Margot: [as she pays for her food] Thank you for everything.
[she is then allowed to leave]


 

Chef Slowik: [to the guests] And please enjoy your gift bags. Some goodies in there. A booklet of our local suppliers, some house-made granola, one of Doug Verrick’s fingers, and a copy of tonight’s menu.


 

Chef Slowik: So, once again, thank you for dining with us tonight. You represent the ruin of my art, and my life. And now you get to be a part of it. A part of what I hope is my masterpiece.


 

Chef Slowik: The s’more. The most offensive assault on the human palate ever contrived. Unethically sourced chocolate and gelatinized sugar water imprisoned by industrial-grade graham cracker. It’s everything wrong with us, and yet we associate it with innocence. With childhood. Mom and Dad. But what transforms this f***ing monstrosity is fire. The purifying flame. It nourishes us, warms us, re-invents us, forges and destroys us. We must embrace the flame.


 

Chef Slowik: [as he sets everyone on fire] I love you all.
Staff: We love you too, Chef!

 


 

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