Everyone expected more from the evening ‘Invite,’ audience included

Olivia Wilde directs and stars in new comedy The Invite. A24

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In the annals of movies about bickersome couples spending an ill-advised evening together, Olivia Wilde’s The Invite falls somewhere between two poles. No, it isn’t as good as Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Mike Nichols‘ scalding 1966 adaptation of Edward Albee‘s classic play. But it’s significantly better than Carnage, Roman Polanski‘s annoying 2011 film of the Yasmina Reza play God of Carnage.