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Critics Consensus: The Invitation makes brilliant use of its tension-rich premise to deliver a uniquely effective -- and surprisingly clever -- slow-building thriller.
Critic Consensus: The Invitation makes brilliant use of its tension-rich premise to deliver a uniquely effective -- and surprisingly clever -- slow-building thriller.
All Critics (95) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (83) | Rotten (12) | DVD (1)
If you were at a creepy dinner party, and the hosts decided to show a video of their vacation in which they spent time with a crazy cult leader in Mexico, would you stick around for the main course?
Psychological thrillers just don't get any better than this.
Beautifully paced, the movie traces a steady arc from amiability to apocalypse.
John Carroll Lynch shares credit with a superb ensemble, but it's his halcyon turn as a pitiable demon that unifies the action.
All this foreboding produces no suspense: It's evident from the bloody prologue where "The Invitation" is headed.
Will is the proxy through which we experience the increasingly confounding web of suspicion and surprises that are obfuscated by social niceties and facades of politesse.
The Invitation is a masterful exercise in unbearable tension.
I really wanted to like this film, but it never came together for me. The character motivations made little sense and the twist at the end had zero payoff.
The Invitation is a great potboiler of a film, rich with character and atmosphere. You know you're onto something special when a slap, a twist of a key or an after dinner toast can instil fear and dread.
[It's] a delightful and ambitious origin story about mass redemption.
We've spent an hour and a half trying to figure out their secrets. Once all is revealed, they're no longer very interesting.
The Invitation presents audiences with characters trying to move on from terrible experiences. It also presents two different ways of approaching the healing process, and the failing of a community to support those in pain.
Interesting idea. Drags out a little long, but decent Netflix watch.
Super Reviewer
The tension built up over the 90% of movie to meet its climax is simply tedious. I wish I was uninvited to the movie night ð???
Kusama's direction is excellent, especially in the way she explores the mise-en-scène and the geography of the house where the narrative takes place, and she knows very well how to create an uncomfortable feeling of unrest as we follow it from the point of view of its main character.
Writers Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi really take their time in establishing the characters. Hosts Eden and David are so cordial. Are they overtly so or is that just in our heads? Will senses something is amiss. He grows ever more anxious. There is a fair amount of build up. So much so that after awhile you may be checking your watch as to where all this is headed. Rest assured, the gradual unfolding of the narrative serves to make the denouement even more effective. Karyn Kusama is an American director who first made a critical splash with the independent Girlfight in 2000. Then went Hollywood with bigger budgets and did Æon Flux (2005) and Jennifer's Body (2009). The Invitation would suggest that she's at her best with smaller scale pictures free from studio interference. I haven't gone into the point of The Invitation. That's something the viewer needs to decide after watching. All I can say is, it most definitively made me feel something and I liked the experience. fastfilmreviews.com
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