When viewed through the eyes of someone living in 2020, one begins to notice a pattern concerning corporate influence over disaster response.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 10, 2020

[Margaret Brown] simply, masterfully, lays out the threads of the situation in front of us in such a way that what we thought we knew is made devastatingly urgent and new.

| Aug 22, 2018

It does answer an awful lot of questions, disturbingly showing how far we have not come in making progress towards low carbon energy sources.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 21, 2016

A smartly assembled film offering an on-the-ground look at the lingering fallout of the historic BP oil spill -- and at America's troubling relationship with Big Oil.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 12, 2014

To the filmmakers' credit, the points of view in The Great Invisible are comprehensive and varied, though it's clear who they view as the good guys and bad guys here.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 11, 2014

A documentary on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 shows that nothing has changed except the oil is still in the ocean and the lives of those who live closest to the spill are much worse.

| Original Score: B | Dec 5, 2014

The Great Invisible is a stirring, sad, and well-made account of a catastrophe that will be haunting us for decades, whether we believe it or not.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 20, 2014

No matter how imperfect the movie might be, it never seems less than important.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 10, 2014

Sober, often moving documentary [that] performs a service by reminding us of...the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster of 2010 and its continuing impact.

| Original Score: B | Nov 8, 2014

[Margaret Brown's] sober, beautiful, infuriating and utterly essential film charts the ongoing cost to be paid from the devastating 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill into the depths the Gulf of Mexico.

| Nov 7, 2014

Brown seamlessly blends the emotional, intimate stories of people with bigger pictures, using the explosion as the starting point for a ripple effect that just keeps growing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 6, 2014

Most of all, it's a sobering look at a part of coastal America that will never be the same again.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 5, 2014

Some of its quieter moments are both infuriating and powerful.

| Oct 31, 2014

...The Great Invisible offers little by way of new analysis, but it does provide us with fresh, urgent, heartbreaking perspective into one of America's most shameful national calamities.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 31, 2014

Quietly devastating ...

| Oct 30, 2014

The Great Invisible is a reminder that the problem of offshore drilling, and our energy policy in general, is still a bubbling pot.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2014

Despite its obvious passion for the subject, it's a reluctant activist movie, and it might have been both more enjoyable and more useful as nothing but a loose portrait of the people it found, letting the important business arise organically.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2014

The film acknowledges [the] instinct toward simplistic polarization, but then softly, compellingly tries to push against it.

| Oct 30, 2014

Slowly and subtly becomes a heartfelt portrait of a community rather than an angry rejection of corporate greed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2014

A hard-hitting and illuminating documentary about one of the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2014