The Invisible Woman
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: December 25, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
75
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 41 Critic Reviews
Positive:
35
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0
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60
The New YorkerDavid DenbyJan 6, 2014
Fiennes and his team have mounted a handsome re-creation of Victorian England, but the Dickens-Ternan affair isn't much of a story -- at least, not as realized here. [6 Jan. 2014, p.73]
60
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanDec 24, 2013
Directed tastefully by Ralph Fiennes, The Invisible Woman is very lovely to look at. But it lives up to its own title too well. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloDec 24, 2013
Handsome and intelligent, it’s nonetheless a tepid portrait of a relationship that would be unremarkable were the gentleman not Dickens. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerOct 10, 2013
Ralph Fiennes's film feels not so much rooted in the past as it is mired in conventions about how to portray that past. Read full review
40
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottJan 24, 2014
There must also be a spark, a sense of life, a compelling reason for being. If a film doesn't have those -- which The Invisible Woman doesn't -- well, it might as well be invisible. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisJan 22, 2014
It’s the subtext of 19th century gender politics that keeps this footnote in Dickens’ life mildly interesting, but it’s a not much upon which to rest an entire movie. Read full review
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