If laughter is the best medicine, consider the packed audience at the world premiere of Olivia Wilde’s “The Invite” cured 10 times over. The Eccles crowd at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival was laughing so hard throughout the film that it was often difficult to hear some of the dialogue in the hilarious and moving relationship dramedy. And these weren’t chuckles. They were full-on belly laughs, which then gave way to arrested silence and, eventually, plenty of tears.
Wilde’s third feature directorial effort finds her masterfully staging a contained story of two couples in one apartment over the course of a single night, resulting in something like the great-great-grandchild…
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