It always feels a little awkward and a little jumpy, but the stories themselves are fascinating.

| Sep 17, 2019

The Invisibles, about humans as living ghosts, needs to be seen, and believed.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2019

"The Invisibles" favors quantity of remembrance over quality of any one experience. It's worth attending to, obviously, even if the movie somehow manages to do less with more.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 20, 2019

Following four survivors, "The Invisibles" is part documentary and part feature film. For most of the movie, it's a good thing.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 31, 2019

Amazingly, the actors are so engaging and believable, and the facts are so riveting, that the movie, despite its flaws, held me spellbound.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 28, 2019

Documentaries with dramatized re-creations are an elusive genre. Can the re-created passages do justice to the factual or historical material? The answer is yes in the case of The Invisibles.

| Jan 25, 2019

A film like The Invisibles is part of bearing 'precise witness.' We clearly need reminders, and constant ones, of the end result of 'otherizing' an entire group of people.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 25, 2019

Although this movie's unusual mix of first-person interviews, archival footage, voiceover narration and dramatic reenactments is a bit awkward, it still makes for a gripping, involving and affecting experience.

| Jan 24, 2019

By smushing together two distinct styles of narrative, "The Invisibles" risks draining the power from both.

| Jan 24, 2019

Räfle's docudrama approach comes with the risk of disjointed storytelling. But he handles each element with a sure hand, bringing us both a fascinating documentary and a suspenseful drama.

| Jan 23, 2019

The film doesn't bring to light otherwise unexplored aspects of the experience or memory of persecution and genocide.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 20, 2019

Levi is still with us at age 94, and living in Germany. So for her, at least, hope and luck somehow were enough.

| Jan 18, 2019