The Invisibles

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

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

"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.

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

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

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.

Even though the outcome for the four survivors is evident in their presence as elderly interviewees, the narrative threads remain consistently compelling as we watch the characters drift imperceptibly throughout the city.

[W]hile the back-and-forth structure hurts the storytelling, the tale itself remains one of vital importance.

The story's interesting enough given the scenes on-set of the making of Cabaret, but the eventual untangling and healing of their relationship, the rarified air of elite Broadway, and stellar performances by Rockwell and Williams make it sing.

Neither version of director Claus Räfle's hybrid documentary-drama has the depth to achieve much impact.