107 min | R | June 26, 2026 | A24
TLDR: Olivia Wilde and Seth Rogen make a mismatched couple in a dinner-party drama that has real ideas about open marriage. It never settles on a voice, so the ideas outrun the movie.
Joe and Angela have a marriage on thin ice, and they paper over the cracks by inviting the enigmatic couple from upstairs down for dinner. Olivia Wilde directs and stars, and the setup is pure chamber piece. Four people, one apartment, a long night that keeps finding new rooms to fall into. The bones are good. A24 knows how to shoot two couples circling each other over wine.
The casting is the problem and the point. Wilde plays Angela with a manic, wide-eyed energy, always leaning in, always one beat ahead of the room. Rogen plays Joe as what looks a lot like Seth Rogen, the laugh intact, the offbeat shrug intact, coasting on the same rhythms he brings to everything. They are pitched at opposite frequencies. Sometimes that reads as a couple who stopped matching years ago. Just as often it reads as two actors who wandered in from different films.
Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton are the neighbors, and they carry the weight the leads keep dropping. Cruz’s Pina is watchful and slow, and Norton plays Hawk with a stillness that makes you lean forward. When the movie lets the four of them actually talk, it raises non-monogamy with more care than you expect. It treats an open marriage as a real proposal with real costs, not a punchline and not a scandal. Those scenes have a pulse.
The trouble is voice and tone. Wilde cannot decide if this is a comedy of manners, a slow-burn thriller, or a sincere drama about what people owe each other, so it lurches between all three. A joke undercuts a confession. A tense silence gets stepped on by Rogen doing a bit. The screenplay has the courage to sit with an uncomfortable idea and then flinches every time it gets close. There is a sharper, stranger movie buried in here. This one keeps talking over it.