Game Night
Over the course of one chaotic night, the friends find themselves increasingly in over their heads as each twist leads to another unexpected turn. With no rules, no points, and no idea who all the players are, this could turn out to be the most fun they've ever had... or game over.
14 May 1962, Rome, Lazio, Italy
20 February 1978, Contra Costa, California, USA
26 November 1975, Bluefield, West Virginia, USA
1 September 1979, Taipei, Taiwan
2 April 1988, Dallas, Texas, USA
10 March 1979, Bronx, New York, USA
4 December 1964, New York, USA
13 July 1970, Hackney, London, England, UK
30 January 1989, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
February 25, 2018
With its clever, whip-smart script and enthusiastic ensemble cast firing on all cylinders, crime comedy filmmakers Jonathan Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein score big with Game Night.
February 24, 2018
Game Night works best when it focuses on the personalities of its characters and meanders when it pays too much attention to the particulars of the plots-within-the-plot.
February 24, 2018
...once you open the box and take out the pieces, it's just a matter of going from one contrived square to another. Not even the rolls of the dice add up to more than three-act narrative math.
February 26, 2018
Directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein keep things peppy, benefitting hugely from a pumped, overqualified ensemble that mine a commendable amount of laughter from a so-so script.
February 22, 2018
The Game Night co-directors deliver a stylish and good-looking movie.
February 26, 2018
A tone-friendly dark comedy about suburban couples having weekly game nights at home with chosen friends.
February 22, 2018
Screenwriter Mark Perez knows the difference between simply making a reference and actually writing a joke - and while the jokes come ceaselessly, they are knowingly and (this turns out to be key) lightly offered.
February 23, 2018
The back and forth between McAdams and Bateman is what makes Game Night sing (which is not to slight Horgan's dry wit or Magnussen's elegant idiocy or Morris' magnificent Denzel Washington impression).
February 25, 2018
Game Night pulls off more narrative twists than an Olympic freestyle skier. And like those gravity-defying champions, the filmmakers' timing, preparation, and technical precision makes it all look deceptively easy.
February 23, 2018
"Game Night" is a blast, a sharp adult comedy that earns genuine laughs without going lowbrow or diving into raunchy humor.
February 22, 2018
The jokes are witty, the risk is real and there's at least one thrilling plot twist.
February 25, 2018
Game Night is canny enough to go full-throttle with the absurd and not bother trying to do much with its meager dramatic and/or sentimental elements.
