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Movie reviews: THE INVITE; GAIL DAUGHTRY AND THE CELEBRITY SEX PASS
Two new comedies turn theaters into rollicking fun.
The Invite A24 Films The Invite ***1/2 It’s clear that buried inside The Invite —director/co-star Olivia Wilde’s adaptation of the 2020 Spanish feature Sentimental —is a sincere “comedy of remarriage” waiting to emerge. Whether or not it succeeds in that genre might not matter when you’ve got moments where the big laughs are coming so fast, one on top of the other, that it becomes absolutely euphoric.
At the center is the clearly-strained relationship between married couple Joe (Seth Rogen) and Angela (Wilde), with the sniping percolating as they prepare to host their upstairs neighbors,…
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