pulling the feels…
pulling the feels…
FLICKFEEL
53
from 55 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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FUN
0
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
50
how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
Nobody has rated this on FlickFeel yet. This is public discussion of this title, read into a curve. It is not a rating and it never becomes one.
Read from 55 comments (50 from Metacritic, 5 from TMDB reviews) — 37 of them described how it moves.
📈 rising arc — Builds the whole way through. Pulled both ways throughout — never simply one thing. Very little of it ever resolves. Marked above the line: 1 that gave people chills.
Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.
“Right from the start you are increasingly presented with atmospheric stimuli that help to increase the overall tension for the story.”
teix · TMDB reviews ↗
“Till the final act it keeps developing, not the story or the characters wisely, but the event where the plot evolves.”
Reno · TMDB reviews ↗
“the level of dread that builds from the beginning”
beyondthecineramadome · TMDB reviews ↗
“à dormir debout qui dure 1h40”
Broyax · Metacritic ↗
“le bousin commence à se réveiller (?) au bout d’une heure environ mais ce n’est qu’un sursaut”
Broyax · Metacritic ↗
“puis le drame tombe comme une cheveu sur la soupe au bout d’1h20, de façon aussi maladroite qu’inepte, pour ne pas dire carrément grotesque”
Broyax · Metacritic ↗
Read 28 Aug 2026 · confidence 100% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
Published reviews, not felt experience — a different question from the one above, and never mixed into the FlickFeel score.
It reviews better than it plays — admired more than it is enjoyed.
“The Invitation is supremely well-crafted.”
Dominick Suzanne-Mayer, Consequence · 91
“Kusama ratchets the story’s tension masterfully, building to a final shot that’s as chilling as it is perfect.”
Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly · 91
“A charged, unnerving turn of the screw, The Invitation is consumed by the fear of forgetting.”
Matt Brennan, Slant Magazine · 88
“Kusama’s handling of point of view is diabolically shrewd. She maximizes the terror potential of the vapidly ostentatious modernist mansion without fetishizing it. She intensifies the monstrosity of some of the characters by making them all too human. And as for guessing the ending — good luck.”
Peter Keough, Boston Globe · 88
“The movie is a small marvel of contained spaces, exploited beautifully by Kusama and cinematographer Bobby Shore.”
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune · 88
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 28 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
it reviews better than it plays — critics 82, the watch 53
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“à dormir debout qui dure 1h40”
Broyaxabout 0–60% inread it ↗
“le bousin commence à se réveiller (?) au bout d’une heure environ mais ce n’est qu’un sursaut”
Broyaxabout 60–70% inread it ↗
“puis le drame tombe comme une cheveu sur la soupe au bout d’1h20, de façon aussi maladroite qu’inepte, pour ne pas dire carrément grotesque”
Broyaxabout 80–90% inread it ↗
“The tension builds so masterfully”
alex443about 0–100% inread it ↗
“Right from the start you are increasingly presented with atmospheric stimuli that help to increase the overall tension for the story.”
teixabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“Till the final act it keeps developing, not the story or the characters wisely, but the event where the plot evolves.”
Renoabout 75–100% inread it ↗
“the level of dread that builds from the beginning”
beyondthecineramadomeabout 0–100% inread it ↗
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