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    The Invite 2026

    The Invite

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    Olivia Wilde’s brilliantly directed new film begins as a farce and evolves into a moving portrait of a marriage in crisis.

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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s heartbreaking melodrama examines the effect of social pressure on love.

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