'The Invite' Review: Olivia Wilde and Seth Rogen Relationship Drama Overstays Its Welcome

Olivia Wilde’s The Invite is an atavistic chamber piece that recalls the cinematic pleasures of watching beautiful people crash out and argue. Wilde’s follow-up to the critically panned Don’t Worry Darling flirts with incendiary melodrama before settling into a more tragic, hopeless register. Centering on two couples who gather for dinner, only to end up spilling secrets, desires, and resentment about each other over immaculately plated charcuterie, each conversation feels like watching technicians try to diffuse explosives.