There is no graceful way to ask another married couple whether they would like to have sex with you. There are only varying degrees of disaster. That is the combustible premise behind “The Invite,” a sharp, funny, and increasingly bruising relationship comedy directed by Olivia Wilde. Wilde and Seth Rogen play Angela and Joe, a married couple who have become more like irritated roommates than romantic partners.

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The pendulum scarcely swings so far in the opposite direction for a filmmaker looking for a reset as it does for Olivia Wilde with “The Invite.” Following a press debacle that overshadowed her scale-up to major studio filmmaking with “Don’t Worry Darling,” she pivots away from the grandiose imagination of that film’s incel metaverse trappings. Here, she presents an inverse through an intimate, single-location chamber piece about an unpredictable dinner party.

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Directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris are getting their next film project together and it will be a remake of a recent Spanish comedy. The directing team, of course, is behind movies such as “Little Miss Sunshine,” “Ruby Sparks,” the sports drama “Battle of The Sexes,” and most recently worked on the Netflix comedy series, “Living With Yourself,” that starred Paul Rudd.

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'Toy Story 4' Set For June 2017 Release, John Lasseter To Direct

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