The Menu · reception & legacy
2022 · Mark Mylod
How The Menu has been received, argued over, and remembered.
The arc
A sleeper hit in late 2022's 'eat the rich' wave (alongside Triangle of Sadness and Glass Onion), it earned Golden Globe nods for Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy — and rather than fading, it found a huge second life on streaming, where it became a compulsively rewatched favourite.
What's debated
The perennial fight: is it a razor-sharp skewering of foodie culture and the wealthy, or is its satire itself the tasting-menu equivalent — gorgeous plating, obvious flavours — compared to its 2022 classmates?
Its footprint
Chef Slowik's imperious single clap became instant meme material, and 'a cheeseburger' entered the food-culture lexicon as shorthand for honest cooking over pretentious fine dining — food TikTok and restaurant Twitter still invoke it constantly.
Where it stands
A certified Letterboxd darling — one of the platform's most-logged films of 2022 and the go-to entry point when film fans rank the eat-the-rich cycle.