...the naivete of his performance has a humbling effect on a film that, while entirely too long and short on sizzling imagery, is meant to be taken simply as folkloric.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 26, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 3, 2002

Though few will argue that it ranks with the best of Herzog's works, Invincible shows he's back in form, with an astoundingly rich film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 25, 2002

Feels less like a change in [Herzog's] personal policy than a half-hearted fluke.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 18, 2002

Remarkably accessible and affecting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 4, 2002

A strange but oddly memorable film.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 4, 2002

Half-baked Herzog, though it has twinkles of theatrical purity that remind you of when his vision was grand.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Oct 4, 2002

The movie has the power of a great silent film, unafraid of grand gestures and moral absolutes.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 4, 2002

More of a career curio than a major work.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 4, 2002

Invincible works, simply but provocatively, as a parable about the oppressed and the oppressors, victimhood and fanaticism.

| Oct 3, 2002

It's an unusual, thoughtful bio-drama with a rich subject and some fantastic moments and scenes.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 3, 2002

A tremendous piece of work.

Full Review | Sep 23, 2002

After one gets the feeling that the typical Hollywood disregard for historical truth and realism is at work here, it's a matter of finding entertainment in the experiences of Zishe and the fiery presence of Hanussen.

Full Review | Sep 23, 2002

It's difficult for a longtime admirer of his work to not be swept up in Invincible and overlook its drawbacks.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 20, 2002

Herzog's intentions are clearly noble, but unless you care to wait for the moments when Roth picks up the film and carries it on his back, back off.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 20, 2002

Embellished with touches of magic realism and washed in a voluptuous quasi-Wagnernian score, Invincible, when at its best, is almost as seductive as Hanussen's games of smoke and mirrors.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 20, 2002

It's depressing to see how far Herzog has fallen.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 20, 2002

Herzog fails to find the visual heart of Zishe's story.

Full Review | Sep 17, 2002

A film which presses familiar Herzog tropes into the service of a limpid and conventional historical fiction, when really what we demand of the director is to be mesmerised.

Full Review | Aug 8, 2002

Real-life strongman Ahola lacks the charisma and ability to carry the film on his admittedly broad shoulders.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 17, 2002