The Invite: Olivia Wilde’s four-hander comedy pits two couples, neighbours in a San Francisco building, who have a dinner party; they are very different, and at very different moments in their lives, so clashes are to be expected. Beyond the fact that this is an adaptation of a Spanish film, there’s not much that is original here, but it’s nevertheless mildly funny and earnest in its considerations of a failing relationship. The four performers are in very good shape: Wilde and Seth Rogen play the host couple: she is insecure and clearly unhappy, while he is abrasive (almost to the point of being unbearable) and neurotic. Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton play the invitees: she is smart and aggressively sexy, while he is smooth and probing. The film and director of photography Adam Newport-Berra make great use of the single space, a large, newly renovated apartment (which is very well put together by production designer Jade Healy, with some spot-on thematic flourishes), moving the camera around and using doorways, windows, and mirrors generously to reframe an image. Both the editing (by Anthony Boys and Yorgos Mavropsaridis) and the sound design are well-used to reinforce the characters’ stress.