Olivia Wilde invites four people to a dinner party and somehow makes you feel like you were also there, slightly drunk, increasingly uncomfortable, and absolutely unable to leave. The Invite is one of those films that knows exactly what it is doing from the first frame and executes it with such confidence that you stop trying to predict where it is going and just give in already. Which, fittingly, is also what the characters eventually have to do. Seth Rogen plays Joe, a form

There is something about laughing in a room full of strangers that cannot be replicated at home on a couch. The sound bounces differently. The embarrassment of being moved travels through you differently when you know other people are feeling it too, when the person three rows back is losing it at the same moment you are and suddenly the joke is bigger than either of you. We saw Bridesmaids in a theater this week for its fifteenth anniversary screening, and within the first t

What do the United States Military and Hollywood have in common? In Atropia, they are the same. Set in 2006, Atropia follows Fayruz (Alia Shawkat), an actress who works in the fictional nation of Atropia as a role-playing civilian. A political satire, Atropia examines how war is a simulation rather than a product of humanity. Unfortunately, I do not think the film succeeded in its trajectory. The winners of the 2025 Sundance Grand Jury Prize, Atropia, had a lot expected of i