Teen angst is teen angst whether it's DOA or MIA, and c'mon, if you really want to go all Swede-emo on us, you're always going to run up against the immovable cinematic woegasm that was Ingmar Bergman. Never a smart move, that.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 7, 2007

My screening presented the final reel upside down and backward; no difference whatsoever.

| Original Score: 1/6 | May 5, 2007

Director David S. Goyer doesn't get half the skin-crawling mileage out of the ghost factor that he could. As a result, The Invisible really isn't worth seeing.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 3, 2007

They should have called this Perturbia.

| Original Score: D | May 3, 2007

The drama never comes together in a smart, meaningful way; indeed, most revelations border on the banal.

Full Review | May 1, 2007

If anything, the movie is too introspective, to the point that it doesn't build enough conflict or tension.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 1, 2007

The only horror here is the script.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 30, 2007

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 30, 2007

This latest recycling of foreign-grown frights shows less interest in horror than in healing.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 30, 2007

[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.

| Apr 30, 2007

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.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 30, 2007

The Invisible is little more than an extended excuse for a soundtrack.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 30, 2007

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 30, 2007

A fully felt, decently crafted teen B-movie melodrama, plenty preposterous in places but alive to the vibrant miseries of being young and misunderstood.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 30, 2007

Plays like a very special episode of The OC.

| Apr 28, 2007

The Invisible is listless in conception and execution.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 27, 2007

There's nothing awful about The Invisible, there's just nothing memorable either.

Full Review | Apr 27, 2007