Game Night

Game Night is the most pleasant surprise in 2010s comedy — a film that looked like a generic studio product in its trailers and turned out to be a brilliantly constructed action-comedy with a tilt-shift visual gimmick that makes every establishing shot look like a board game. Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams have genuine chemistry as a competitive couple whose game night turns into a real kidnapping scenario. Jesse Plemons steals the entire film as the creepy divorced neighbor, delivering every line with the flat affect of a man who has catalogued his emotions in a spreadsheet.