Game Night (2018)

We laughed a lot at this silly comedy-thriller about some competitive folks whose regular game night is hijacked by criminals. Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams are very funny and have good chemistry as the main couple and were last blogged for Zootopia and Doctor Strange, respectively. They are joined by Lamorne Morris (138 episodes of New Girl, all but the pilot, as Winston), Kylie Bunbury (we liked all ten episodes of Pitch, in which she was the lead, a female major league baseball pitcher), Billy Magnussen (his only other mention in the blog is for Into the Woods), Kyle Chandler (most recently in Carol), Jesse Plemons (last in Other People), and Sharon Horgan (I'm a big fan of hers--she created, starred, and wrote all three seasons of Catastrophe on Amazon with another coming up, maybe in April, and also created and wrote 20 episodes of Divorce on HBO).

John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein co-direct their second feature from a script by Mark Perez (his fourth).

The thriller aspect of the movie is accentuated by the tense music by Cliff Martinez (last scored Spring Breakers) which can be streamed from this youtube album.

Rotten Tomatoes' critics and audiences, averaging 82 and 84% respectively, like it, too. It's fun and diverting. Check it out after you see the more important and less widely distributed ones (or wait for its May 2018 release on disc and streaming). If you do see it, be sure to stay put for the post-credit scene.