The Menu (2022)
Comedy, Horror
The Kernel take
A 71 Kernel Score ("Generally Favorable," 80/18/2 spread) puts The Menu solidly in positive territory without approaching consensus status. On a $30M budget it grossed $79.6M worldwide, about 2.65× budget — a comfortable if unspectacular commercial result for an original horror-comedy.
Director track record: Mark Mylod
The Menu's 71 is well above Mark Mylod's 45.75-point career average across these films — by far his best-reviewed work, well clear of any of his earlier comedies.
Lead track record: Anya Taylor-Joy
The Menu's 71 sits above Anya Taylor-Joy's 62.1-point average across these 17 films — a stronger-than-typical outing for her, though well short of her best-reviewed film, The Witch (84).
Box office
Budget $30M · Box office $79.6M
A -39.1% second-weekend drop and 4.3× domestic multiplier on a $9.00M opening weekend show fairly typical wide-release legs for The Menu, including a small mid-run bump in week seven ($1.10M, up from $0.68M in week six) suggesting a brief rebooking or awards-adjacent bump.