Cambridge undergraduate finalist and northerner.

Reviews

The Favourite

Rating: 4 out of 5.

2018

No review provided.

The Menu

Rating: 4 out of 5.

2022

While Anya Taylor-Joy certainly dazzles as The Menu’s protagonist, her impressive performance is left in the dust by Ralph Fiennes’ monstrous, hilarious, and perfectly spiteful Julian Slowik.

Fiennes’ recurrent monologues, the narrative core of the meal, serve up a delightful tension. In many ways, Slowik is shown to typify integral aspects of the elite culture he resents: do not eat, he begs his diners, but taste, savour, relish. Concurrently, his menu serves up on an impassioned, absurdist, and endlessly amusing critique of elite dining, allowing him too the opportunity to lambast the insulated arrogance of critics, the wealthy, and ‘foodies’ alike.

The relative simplicity of The Menu‘s social commentary does not detract from its impact. The one-dimensional hauteur of Fiennes’ guests only accents the delectable absurdity of his character and menu, and renders the absurdist satire integral to the film both more legible and more amusing. The Menu is a gourmet delicacy – a blissful balance of tension and merriment, combining a richly talented cast with a compelling story and refined message – all accompanied by a light, choral, and deliciously dissonant soundtrack courtesy of the brilliant Colin Stetson. It is a menu truly to die for.

Motherland

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

2016 – 2022

No review provided.

The Father

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

2021

No review provided.

Knives Out

Rating: 4 out of 5.

2019

No review provided.

The Death of Stalin

Rating: 5 out of 5.

2017

No review provided.

The Two Popes

Rating: 4 out of 5.

2019

No review provided.