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Five minutes with Olivia Wilde

After this year’s Seattle International Film Festival, I wrote of the closing-night film, “If there was ever a movie designed in a lab solely for me to enjoy, it would be The Invite.” Since then, I haven’t shut up about how this dinner-party-from-hell, single-location feature from Olivia Wilde has been my favorite movie of the year so far.

Boots Riley at SIFF 2026 Opening night - photo by Morgen Schuler
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SIFF 2026 Notebook: I Love Boosters

Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters, the opening night film at this year’s Seattle International Film Festival, confirms him as one of the few American filmmakers capable of turning political rage into genuinely original spectacle. Riley has not spent the eight years since Sorry to Bother You (SIFF 2018) moderating either his politics or his imagination.