A24's 'The Invite' Wins 3.5 Stars Ahead of July 10 Wide Release
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Updated · Fox News · Jun 27
A24's 'The Invite' Wins 3.5 Stars Ahead of July 10 Wide Release
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 27
Summary
A24's R-rated comedy "The Invite" earned a 3.5-star review, with the critic calling it a raunchy, laugh-out-loud adult comedy now in select theaters before a July 10 wide release.
Olivia Wilde directs and co-stars with Seth Rogen as one half of a strained San Francisco couple whose dinner with neighbors played by Edward Norton and Penélope Cruz spirals after an intimate proposition.
107-minute film adapts the 2020 Spanish movie "The People Upstairs," preserving a stage-like single-setting tension that the review says Wilde turns into mounting anxiety and biting humor.
Cruz and Norton were singled out as the standout pair, while Rashida Jones and Will McCormack's script was praised for rapid-fire jokes that repeatedly drew audience laughter.