The Invite: Olivia Wilde’s Sex Comedy Is ‘the Funniest Film so Far This Year’
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The Invite: Olivia Wilde’s sex comedy is ‘the funniest film so far this year’
Couple-swapping dramas had their heyday during the sexual revolution, said David Sexton in The New Statesman. And even the most famous of them, such as 1969’s “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice”, look like “curiosities from another era” now. “Yet somehow, sexual perplexities remain in 2026.” “The Invite” started life as a play, by the Catalan writer/director Cesc Gay, which has since been turned into a film everywhere from Italy to South Korea. Now we h…
Far from Olivia Wilde accompanies couple in crisis who invites neighbors to a dinner where everything (or almost everything) goes wrong
Olivia Wilde’s The Invite reignites the power and potential of clever adult comedies
Courtesy A24 Among many complaints about the current state of the film industry is the decline of the mid-budget comedy. For the most part, comedy films are currently stuck in the realm of straight-to-streaming, not helped by many contemporary comedy directors failing to make the case for comedy as a genre with just as much visual potential as drama, action, or horror. This was not always the case. Prior to the current drought, comedies were eve…
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