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The best new films out this week: From The Menu to Confess, Fletch-Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and James Mottram-Entertainment – Metro
Get the lowdown on the newest flicks.
Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy star in The Menu (Picture: Eric Zachanowich/20th Century)
A new hot batch of movies will be released in time for the weekend.
As the nights continue to get longer, many of us will be planning to tune-out the cold and dark by getting wrapped up in another person’s story.
In The Menu, Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy star in this dark comedy that serves up a few shocking surprises.
A unlikely friendship – between a former prisoner and an asylum seeker caught in limbo by the immigration system in Ireland – develops in the touching film Aisha.
Also entangled in a web is Jon Hamm’s character Fletch, a charismatic but troublesome freelance reporter who becomes the main suspect in multiple murders while he looks for a stolen art collection.
Read on for more.
The Menu
Ralph Fiennes dishes up a delicious Michelin-starred portion of Ralph Fiennes-ness in this twisted eat-the-rich satire. He’s chef Slowik, sadistic and inscrutable head of Hawthorne, an uber-pretentious island restaurant, where seating costs $1,250 a head.
His guests this night include a fawning foodie (Nicholas Hoult) who wangs on about ‘mouthfeel’; an egotistical food critic (Janet McTeer); an insecure Hollywood star who is ‘entering the presenting stage’ of his career (John Leguizamo); and a cool girl in cheap, chunky boots (Anya Taylor-Joy) who is an unwelcome last-minute addition.
Brace yourself for dark laughs and violent surprises. Directed by Succession’s Mark Mylod, it doesn’t skewer the one per cent deeply as it should.
But if the script’s a bit messy, it’s certainly memorable.
15. Out Friday in cinemas
Spirited
Ryan Reynolds, left, and Will Ferrell showing off their jazz-hands moves (Picture: AP)
Nipping in faster than Jack Frost before other Yuletide films clog up the cinemas is another spin on the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol.
This musical stars Will Ferrell as the Ghost of Christmas Present, who has an annual mission – to find one soul to be redeemed. This time, that happens to be Ryan Reynolds’ smarmy marketing guru Clint Briggs.
What’s more, Ferrell’s spirit also falls for Clint’s executive VP, played by Octavia Spencer. With songs from La La Land’s Justin Paul and Benj Pasek, it has bags of West End oomph and the A-list leads give it their best jazz-hands.
But there’s something slightly too slick and charm-free about it, which director Sean Anders never quite overcomes. It doesn’t help that the presence of Ferrell just makes you want to sit down and rewatch Elf instead.
12A. Out now in cinemas and on Apple TV+ from Friday
Aisha
Black Panther star Letitia Wright shows she’s not all about blockbusters with this small, moving story of a Nigerian woman seeking asylum in Ireland who forms an unlikely friendship with a troubled local lad (The Durrells’ Josh O’Connor).
12A. Out tomorrow on Sky Cinema
Disenchanted
Amy Adams returns as a fish out of water storybook princess in this belated sequel to Disney’s Enchanted. Patrick Dempsey, Idina Menzel, and James Marsden are also back in a musical that relocates the fairytale action to suburbia.
Rating tbc. Out Friday on Disney+
Confess, Fletch
Mad Men’s Jon Hamm slips into Chevy Chases’s old sneakers (let’s hope not literally) as the titular Fletch. He’s a roguish reporter who becomes the prime suspect in a murder case whilst on a search for stolen art in this revival of the hit 1980s comedy franchise.
15. Out Friday in cinemas
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