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11/30/01
The Invisible Circus (2001)
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Reviews Counted:60
Fresh:13
Rotten:47
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: Despite Jordana Brewster's strong performance, The Invisible Circus lacks the necessary dramatic tension to be interesting. Also, the cultural and political contexts of the period are barely explored.
Synopsis: In THE INVISIBLE CIRCUS, sixties idealism meets headlong with family conflict and, mysteriously, death. This compelling drama, based on Jennifer Egan's novel, begins in the infamous Summer of '69,... [More]
Starring: Jordana Brewster, Christopher Eccleston, Cameron Diaz, Patrick Bergin
Director: Adam Brooks
Reviews for The Invisible Circus
Top CriticMovie hits one note and holds it for 90-odd minutes.
02/02/01
Movies that attempt to resurrect the spirit of the 1960s and explain 'what went wrong,' almost always implode from the weight of their own pretensions.
02/01/01
Flimsy and uninvolving.
02/02/01
One more failed attempt to make a definitive statement about that indefinable revolution-in-consciousness that was the 1960s.
02/02/01
Alluring, but ultimately insubstantial.
02/02/01
For whatever reason, Brooks has decided to distance his characters from the audience, and the result is a cold, uninvolving experience.
02/05/01
An absorbing story about hope, youthful ardency and shattered illusions that creates a bonding empathy between the audience and its pensive young heroine.
02/01/01
A soul-satisfying film about one young woman's rite of initiation into adulthood.
04/06/01
Everything must pass through the filter of Phoebe, who is basically inexpressive and unlikable.
02/01/01
A fatally insubstantial film.
02/02/01
The Invisible Circus has its heart in the right place, but its hippie-dippie, flower-power motif never really goes anywhere or say anything new.
02/02/01
Watching it is like having a book read to you by someone who can't enliven his voice above a monotone.
02/01/01
Brooks tries to cram too much into his scenes, combining both the film's external world and characters' inner thoughts in a way that is cluttered and lacking in imagination.
09/04/01
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01/12/04
When flashbacks tease us with bits of information, it has to be done well, or we feel toyed with. Here the mystery is solved by stomping in thick-soled narrative boots through the squishy marsh of contrivance.
02/02/01
Top CriticThe film is overnarrated and in spots overwritten, but Brooks ... does well with actors, and he has coaxed an extraordinary performance out of the young Jordana Brewster.
02/07/01
Mostly through Brewster's central, focusing performance, it brings back the time of youth gone mad with possibility.
02/01/01
In adapting Jennifer Egan's first novel, writer-turned-director Adam Brooks has mined just about every sixties cliché imaginable.
02/02/01
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