The restaurant at the heart of this heady recipe is Hawthorne, a fabulously expensive establishment run by the demanding, precise Chef Slowik (Ralph Fiennes, sharp as carbon steel) from a private island where all the ingredients are local and a seat at the table will set you back more than a grand. The list of ingredients is long, the techniques complex, but everything is whipped like egg whites into something so light and airy you barely notice the bitterness until it smacks you in the teeth.

Yes, the enigmatic master chef at the heart of film is playing with the raw materials of life and death on his plates-seafood, fungi, roast chicken, flash-frozen microgreens and plenty of artful foam-but the menu he’s developed, and the film that depicts it, is also dealing with the raw materials of human human life and death. Food, he tells us, is the purest and best art form, because a great chef’s medium is “the raw materials of life and death.” Like just about every piece of dialogue in the film, written with fiendish joy by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy, it’s both funny in the moment and unexpectedly profound in the larger context of The Menu’s dark game. Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Ralph Fiennes, Hong Chau, Janet McTeer, Judith Light, John LeguizamoĮarly in The Menu, director Mark Mylod’s beautiful, intricate dark comedy set amid the trappings of exclusive restaurant culture, a character explains that, for him, art doesn’t matter. Here are the 35 Best New Movies on iTunes: You can also check out our guides to the best movies on Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Hulu, Showtime, Cinemax, YouTube, on demand, and at Redbox. We know iTunes has an enormous catalog of movies, but this guide should help you find something brand new to rent or buy that you’ll love. There are genre movies like The Green Knight and Sator abound, but we’re also recommending excellent indie films like Pig and brilliant docs like The Painter and the Thief-as well as films that made our Best of 20 lists. What we give you here is a list of the best new movies on iTunes, which is of paramount importance as VOD rentals become our standard moviegoing option and we all settle in for a new normal.

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