Check out my full review @ https://www.manuelsbento.com/the-invite-2026-four-brilliant-actors-and-the-years-most-electric-dinner-party/ Rating: B+ Olivia Wilde's THE INVITE might be her best film yet — a sharp, funny, and surprisingly moving dinner party gone sideways, carried by a quartet of actors clearly having the time of their lives. Edward Norton, Wilde herself, Penélope Cruz, and Seth Rogen all bring the…

This feels like a theatrical work that’s been adapted for the screen. The subject matter concerns relationships outside of traditional structures, and it's handled without apology. This is definitely geared toward more experienced viewers.

From the very beginning, you can tell that the marriage between Seth Rogan’s character, “Joe,” and Olivia Wilde’s “Angela” is struggling—it has been for some time. He comes home from his ordinary job teaching music to find that she's invited their neighbors over for a continental dinner. He doesn't remember any discussion about this, but his bad mood quickly needs to be contained when Penélope Cruz as "Piña" and Edwa…

The Irish writer Oscar Wilde once suggested that being in love is preferable to marriage, and those words seem particularly appropriate as an introduction to Olivia Wilde's newest film, which represents her strongest work yet directing. Adapted from the 2020 Spanish film “Sentimental,” this American version offers a sharp, occasionally harsh, and frequently cynical examination of matrimony through the experiences of …