Game Night

The long joke of the narrative is adroitly handled, and for once the climax pays off in laughs.

The movie is a hollow throwback to classic comedy, and it shines only by contrast with dull studio competition.

The spoofy action set-pieces are ho hum. What's special is the minutiae-based, casually political banter.

This surprisingly zingy, throwback studio comedy is witty and observant on the dynamics between couples.

The closest thing we have seen in recent years to a successful exercise in high screwball.

It's clever, silly, slick and fun.

Its great screenplay allows for a little more storyline and suspense then what we expect from most comedy films while Jason Bateman once again shows why he is the current king of comedy.

Flush with snickering hilarity and scoring plenty of points for swerving surprises, Game Night is infectiously entertaining with any cheese it serves.

Harkening back to the mid-budget comedy movies that have sadly disappeared from the mainstream, Game Night is the sort of breezy movie that has great potential for universal appeal, if only people are able to find out about it.

Plemons steals every scene he is in. I also can’t say enough about the comic timing of both Bateman and McAdams. Both work at just the right pitch and hold everything together even as things begin to unravel in the third act.