The Invite (2026)
Drama, Comedy
The Kernel take
An 82 Metascore ('Universal Acclaim', 91% positive across 47 reviews) is one of the strongest critical receptions of the year. The commercial side is far more modest — $24.99M worldwide against a $15.02M domestic total, with no reported budget or marketing spend on record to compare it to.
Director track record: Olivia Wilde
The Invite's 82 is comfortably above Olivia Wilde's 71.3-point directing average across these 3 films, just shy of her career-best, Booksmart (84).
Lead track record: Olivia Wilde
As an actor, Olivia Wilde's other work averages just 49.4 across these 21 scored roles — The Invite's 82 towers over that, and over her best other performance, Rush (74).
Box office
Box office $25M
Rather than a typical decline, The Invite's grosses climbed for two straight weeks after opening (up roughly 86% in week two, then an even bigger jump in week three) before easing off in week four — a slow-building expansion pattern rather than standard opening-weekend legs. The $15.02M domestic total works out to roughly 39.6× the opening weekend gross.