The Invisible 2007

Critics score:
20 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: [This] wasn't screened for the press, perhaps because its poetic fantasy premise is so hard to understand. Yet originality and even a certain amount of obscurity are more appealing than formula. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: A fully felt, decently crafted teen B-movie melodrama, plenty preposterous in places but alive to the vibrant miseries of being young and misunderstood. Read more

Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: The Invisible is little more than an extended excuse for a soundtrack. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: They should have called this Perturbia. Read more

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Makes good use of its Washington state backdrop, plays around with some actual allegories and is taken seriously by all involved. But with material this ephemerally transparent, that does neither the movie nor the people involved any favors. Read more

Luke Y. Thompson, L.A. Weekly: It's all, y'know, such a deep metaphor for alienation, man, especially since nobody truly 'sees' Annie for who she really is. And yes, you are supposed to take this all extremely seriously. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Layers of the story are jammed into the script, but what might work as a narrative device in a novel -- the spirit guiding readers through Nick's revelations -- is just plain ridiculous in a movie. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: Even ghost stories aren't allowed to be so ludicrous as to show a gut-shot character carrying on as if suffering from nothing worse than a mild wedgie, or a guy trying to drag his own body to safety. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Read more

Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: If anything, the movie is too introspective, to the point that it doesn't build enough conflict or tension. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: The only horror here is the script. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: My screening presented the final reel upside down and backward; no difference whatsoever. Read more

Peter Debruge, Variety: Plays like a very special episode of The OC. Read more