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Lack of good storyline.

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Better Late Then Never

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

It's ironic that Clarkson's character accuses her husband of the overuse of cliche. These wonderful screen actors try so hard but they can only do so much with this predictable, hackneyed script. Not sure why but I was especially disappointed with the title. This was never going to be a party.

Janet is hosting an intimate gathering at home to celebrate her promotion to Shadow Minister of Health. This dark comedy will not appeal to all. It has received a mixed reception from movie critics. Filmed in black-and-white, the running time is short - just over an hour. The emphasis is on the characters and the dialogue with less-than-realistic home-and-garden scenery straight from an Agatha Christie stage play. The invitees know each other so well that the sharp wit does not offend too deeply. Eccentricity is rife with characters behaving outrageously and the ensemble of seven actors over-acting like crazy. I found it highly entertaining and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Janet hosts a party to celebrate her new promotion, but once the guests arrive it becomes clear that not everything is going to go down as smoothly as the red wine. Despite an amazing and talented cast of actors 'The Party' is a 1hr and 10min film that will bore and make viewers sleep to death. It's boring, slow paced and the characters are badly written with an entire film being about them and their stupid little lives as a whole. The black and white cinematography or direction in general wasn't needed either. This movie reminded me that other film with Richard Gere and Rebeca Hall that had a similar plot as well. Overall a big waste of time skip it!!! (0/10)

This was so bad it was good. We were 11 minutes into this when my wife first said to me: "This is rubbish". I tried to defend it on the basis that it could only get better. I expected that the film would become more subtle as events unraveled. I expected my expectations to be confounded. I was mistaken. The film starts off with the subtlety of a sledgehammer and becomes ever more preposterous thereafterAll 7 characters are unlikeable. Every character is a two-dimensional stereotype: The banker snorts coke (natch); the pregnant lesbian wears dungarees (to a posh party); The ageing lesbian is a professor specializing is some niche of feminism; there's an ageing hippy (who spouts about broken Western medicine); every female character is extremely high achieving and they pepper most of their dialogue with references to strong women and post-post feminism; the men are all buffoons. It's all so wearily 2017. I hoped these lazy stereotypes would be thrown off as the film progressed, thereby confounding our - i.e. the viewers - lazy pigeon-holing. Unfortunately, the clichés remained in place until the bitter end.The dialogue is execrable: these people are friends yet they talk to each other with contempt. April (Patricia Clarkson) cannot talk without directing a scathing insult to whomsoever she is addressing. Yet, no one ever picks her up on it: they either ignore the insult or respond with a feeble defence that enforces the cliché of their character.At one point, there is an attack on the profession of the banker. Just in case some viewers wanted further confirmation as to how morally high-brow this film really is.The story is contrived beyond belief. It's trying way too hard to be clever.This film marks the high-water mark of the liberal elite.