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Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The movie's a hushed and hesitant thing, extremely beautiful in its camerawork, lighting, and editing, and extremely British in its repression. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: A delicate counterpoise of passion and restraint, The Invisible Woman is a major work in a minor key. Read more
Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post: By refusing to consider that Dickens and Ternan ever brought each other any happiness, the movie is more Victorian in its attitudes than even some Victorians were. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Mr. Fiennes admirably humanizes the characters while exploring their contradictions and emphasizing their feelings. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: The Invisible Woman gives us a plausible image of the great man in the fullness of his celebrity, and an affecting portrait of the woman who lived much of her life in his shadow. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It's wonderfully cast ... and beautifully designed; a quiet pleasure. Read more
Scott Foundas, Variety: A revelatory performance by Felicity Jones is the chief but hardly only virtue of Ralph Fiennes' impressively crafted Dickens tale. Read more
Mike D'Angelo, AV Club: Handsome and intelligent, it's nonetheless a tepid portrait of a relationship that would be unremarkable were the gentleman not Dickens. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: As good as Fiennes is, Jones is even better. Read more
Jocelyn Noveck, Associated Press: There's plenty of fun here for anyone partial to expertly done period dramas. The costumes are wonderful, and it's particularly enjoyable to watch rehearsal scenes in a 19th-century theater. Read more
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader: An air of complacency hangs over the project; its condemnation of Victorian sexism makes us congratulate ourselves for our more enlightened views. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Even if you don't entirely buy this version of events, director Ralph Fiennes has given us a speculation that works as drama. It's an elegant bit of goods. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: The Invisible Woman at its best does justice to the complicatedness of its characters -- just as Dickens did as a writer. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Fiennes reveals just what a fiercely energetic force Dickens was. With her fulsome mouth and hazel eyes, Jones offers a convincing mix of youth and precocious awareness. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Fiennes and screenwriter Abi Morgan adapt Claire Tomalin's book with delicate grace, presenting love as blessing, curse and, perhaps, inevitable force. Read more
William Goss, Film.com: A narrative as emotionally repressed as its subjects must have been. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: A first-rate portrait of Charles Dickens's secret affair with a young actress. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: It turns out to be as compellingly dramatic as anything [Dickens] put on the page. Read more
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: Fiennes, who's getting awfully good at directing himself and everybody around him, envisions Dickens as something of a rock star in 19th century London, a popular, glad-handing figure who can't step out in public without an adoring audience swarming. Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: Why did this bright, vivacious, intellectually engaged girl willingly lock herself up in a wealthy man's seraglio? Put bluntly, what did she get out of it? In the end, "The Invisible Woman" remains a mystery. Read more
David Denby, New Yorker: Fiennes and the screenwriter, Abi Morgan, have mounted an accurate re-creation of Victorian England, but the affair isn't much of a story-at least, not as realized here. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: There's nothing here you haven't seen before - or see around you, today - and very little reason to go into a theater and see it again. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Directed tastefully by Ralph Fiennes, "The Invisible Woman" is very lovely to look at. But it lives up to its own title too well. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: You may become impatient with the leisurely pace of "The Invisible Woman" and its occasional narrative vagueness, but its open spaces leave room for some of the strongest acting of any contemporary film. Read more
Michael Sragow, Orange County Register: In the scenes of Dickens acting on stage or delivering a public reading, Fiennes' bravura transcends itself; it becomes something magnificently real, a sort of divine extroversion. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Shot with a stillness that serves to reinforce the restlessness in its characters' souls, The Invisible Woman offers a fascinating view of a young woman whose eagerness and energy are slowly compromised ... Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Ralph Fiennes, working from a screenplay by Abi Morgan, has brought this story to the screen in a film that will appeal greatly to Dickens enthusiasts and those who enjoy British costume dramas. Read more
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: Ralph Fiennes does a marvelous job as Dickens and as the director of this film. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: "The Invisible Woman" is a strong movie about a young woman who makes a choice and then lives with it, accepting the reality of knowing all and yet having to stayinvisible. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: A literary love story that's rooted in repression. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: While the whole thing is Victorian to the flower-patterned mantlepieces and oil-lamp lighting, this is a living, breathing portrait of people caught by familiar emotions and imprisoning social codes. Read more
Bruce Demara, Toronto Star: Ralph Fiennes both stars (as Dickens) and directs with an exacting eye to period detail and there are great performances across the board, among them Felicity Jones as Nelly Ternan and Kristin Scott Thomas as her mother, Catherine. Read more
Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: The period detail is exquisite, down to the last antimacassar, but the storytelling is so inert that the furnishings steal the focus. Read more
Dave Calhoun, Time Out: The sheer warmth and liveliness of Fiennes's Dickens means he's impossible not to like. Read more
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: A romance about stolen liberties in a repressed moment, this pulses with passion and purpose. Read more
Nick Schager, Village Voice: The Invisible Woman finds Ralph Fiennes proving as adept behind the camera as he is in front of it. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: In some scenes, Fiennes is too free with the handheld camera. But he does make the movie all-aquiver, rich in feeling. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: [A] compassionate, clear-eyed, beautifully conceived portrait ... Read more