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I really enjoyed this sensitive intelligent film with its insightful script of adults trying to understand themselves and their complicated lives. Set in a beautiful Hollywood Hills home the characters are complex as they struggle with how to treat each other and their own vulnerabilities. An elderly stranger arrives whose wisdom slowly unfolds as the well acted party guests gradually reveal their truer selves. All of the actors are excellent in their roles. Walton Goggins and Pedro Pascal are interesting as their divergent characters. The setting and scenes all take place at the home and could be a superb Broadway play as well.

When you want to critique Hollywood, you have to do it intimately and not in a gigantic and obscene way like the budgets of summer movies: The Uninvited is a play to keep you close and engaged thanks to a beautifully staged sequence of almost thriller-like setups to surprise you. There are no superheroes, mass murderers, or lovers running through airports, but real people who feel like all of us.

All the characters are charming until real-life problems catch up with them to show that they are vulnerable humans, where there will always be hope. But will everything be too late? That's what each spectator will have to judge.

After watching Pedro Pascal and Walter Goggins absolutely dominate in The Last of Us and Fallout, I was really hoping/expecting there would be more to this than the description. Some kind of time-travel thing or something to make it interesting. (Between the title and setting, my mind kept going back to The Invitation, which definitely had its shortcomings but was at least creative) Unfortunately, it's just a straight drama. For what it is it's done very well, but the entire movie is just interpersonal drama with layers of trivial love story. It's a story, just not one worth telling.

The movie is done very well, so if you're someone that likes filling your head with banal personal BS, it's definitely worth checking out. If you like stories with creativity, definitely skip this. Pedro Pascal's charisma may seem endless, but it can't carry this much.

Rose" (Elizabeth Reaser) is married to talent agent "Sammy" (Walton Goggins) and they are preparing for a make-or-break party at their home one evening when the sound of a repetitious car horn sends her out to investigate. That's when she meets "Helen" (Lois Smith). She's an elderly lady convinced that she lives in their house, and when "Rose" takes her in whilst trying to summon some help her presence seems to galvanise her family and their guests into a series of revealingly uninteresting and cocaine-induced home truths that drags the whole thing into the doldrums of a melodrama populated by some seriously mediocre actors adequately reflected by the presence of Rufus Sewell! Actually, any scene stealing probably just belongs to a toilet doorknob, to Smith and to an enthusiastic effort from Roland Rubio as their son "Wilder". Otherwise it's really just a collection of who cares people that engender very little interest in their self-induced and/or self-serving problems. Stereotypes galore, sorry!

I watched The Uninvited. At the Odeon last night and was genuinely moved by it. The film had the emotional depth and intimacy of a stage play - relatable, at times uncomfortably so, yet also beautiful, thought-provoking, funny and emotionally rich .

The performances were strong across the board, pulling me into the story completely. I laughed, I cried - it was one of those rare films that stays with you long after the credits roll.

I especially appreciated the visual effect and setting of the scenes with the orange tree - beautifully done, both symbolically and cinematically. They added a sense of quiet magic to the film that balanced its heavier themes.

A good production and a truly moving piece. I'd absolutely recommend it - and would gladly watch it again.