Olivia Wilde’s next film keeps the battlefield small: one apartment, two couples, and a marriage already close to collapse. After “Booksmart” and “Don’t Worry Darling,” Wilde returns behind the camera—and also steps back in front of it—for “The Invite,” an A24 relationship comedy built around the kind of dinner party where nobody leaves with the same secrets they brought in.
READ MORE: 53 Must-See Films To Watch Summer 2026
The film stars Seth Rogen and Wilde as Joe and Angela, a married couple whose relationship has hit a brittle, unhappy stretch. In an attempt to shake loose whatever remains between them, they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors over for dinner. That is where the evening starts to bend. As the night pushes into increasingly uncomfortable territory, the question becomes whether Joe and Angela have found a way back to each other or discovered the fastest route to burning the whole thing down.
Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton co-star as the upstairs neighbors who arrive with their own energy, history, and ideas about intimacy. The screenplay comes from Will McCormack and Rashida Jones, with Wilde directing her third feature after the teen-comedy breakout “Booksmart” and the heavily scrutinized “Don’t Worry Darling.”
“The Invite” premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival in the Premieres section, where the film drew attention as one of the festival’s splashier actor-driven comedies. Sundance’s own write-up described the movie as centered on one dinner party, two couples, and a marriage quietly cracking under the weight of everything left unsaid, while our review called it a scaled-down comeback bid that sits somewhere between marital drama, sex comedy, and dinner-party chamber piece.
Still, the cast alone makes this a curiosity: Rogen in relationship-collapse mode, Wilde directing herself through a bruised marriage comedy, Cruz and Norton as destabilizing neighbors, and A24 giving the film a summer theatrical push. In an era when adult comedies are often shuffled off to streaming, “The Invite” is at least getting the chance to make its mess on the big screen.
“The Invite” opens in theaters on June 26. Watch the trailer below.
- Rodrigo Perez
- Rodrigo Perez
- Rodrigo Perez
- Rodrigo Perez
- Rodrigo Perez
- Rodrigo Perez
- Rodrigo Perez
- Rodrigo Perez
- Rodrigo Perez
