Fun-enough comedy that will mostly be remembered for Rachel McAdams’ best line delivery of 2018 (“oh no, he died”). Sibling rivalry deal, with Jason Bateman, who grew up extremely competitive because of his older brother Kyle Chandler. Kyle visits and sets up a live-action murder-mystery game as a pretense to gift Jason a sweet-ass car, but Kyle actually gets kidnapped by baddies because all his apparent success is due to his double-dealings with dangerous criminals, so Jason and wife Rachel split up from their fellow gamenighters to solve the real kidnapping which they think is fake until people start getting killed.<\/p>\n
Calum Marsh’s review is what go me into the theater:<\/p>\n
The screenplay, which has set-ups and punchlines and set-pieces and actual jokes<\/i>, made me realize how bored I am with the Apatovian improvisatory riffing that’s dominated mainstream comedy since about 2005, and how much I’ve yearned for gags that seem written<\/i> rather than stumbled upon once the camera’s rolling indiscriminately. It also looks terrific: unlike the slapdash script-delivery-service style that makes everything from Baywatch<\/em> to The Disaster Artist<\/a><\/em> feel like the same careless feature-length slab of cable television, Game Night<\/em> is clearly the product of thought and skill, directed by people who remember (as some of us still do) that film is a visual medium.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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