Game Night
Bateman and McAdams star as Max and Annie, whose weekly couples game night gets kicked up a notch when Max's charismatic brother, Brooks (Chandler), arranges a murder mystery party, complete with fake thugs and faux federal agents. So when Brooks gets kidnapped, it's all part of the game - right? But as the six uber-competitive gamers set out to solve the case and win, they begin to discover that neither this game - nor Brooks - are what they seem to be.
30 January 1989, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
20 July 1985, Wheeling, Illinois, USA
1 February 1971, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
17 September 1965, Buffalo, New York, USA
7 December 1965, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
26 November 1975, Bluefield, West Virginia, USA
February 26, 2018
A tone-friendly dark comedy about suburban couples having weekly game nights at home with chosen friends.
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 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 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 22, 2018
The jokes are witty, the risk is real and there's at least one thrilling plot twist.
February 22, 2018
The Game Night co-directors deliver a stylish and good-looking movie.
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 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 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.
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.
