Okay for older teens, but nothing special.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2011

[A] dreamy and meditative film [about] the disillusioning unfolding of the real, cold, hard world as we grow up.

Full Review | Nov 19, 2008

Adam Brooks' film is a total miss, both as a potentially intriguing look into the tumultuous politics of the 1960s and 1970s and as a coming of age of a girl obsessed with her sister's mysterious death

Full Review | Original Score: D | Dec 18, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 3, 2004

Whenever Brooks hits a stride, the mystery element takes over, and that crudely formed aspect of the film overwhelms what is fully functional.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 12, 2004

Cameron Diaz and Christopher Eccleston? Good. Jordana Brewster? Actorly indication, stilted line readings and nostril-flaring petulance. The result? A bad day at the Circus.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Apr 28, 2003

By the time the uninspiring finale occurs the audience is completely lost in boredom and longing for the credits.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 10, 2002

Picturesque European locations, a mystery whose successive folds will be uncovered by Faith's ex-boyfriend (Christopher Eccleston, in a ratty wig he will have to live down for years), and some heavily psychological sermonizing.

Full Review | Dec 9, 2002

It's one big cliché of sentimental drivel.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Apr 4, 2002

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 58/100 | Sep 4, 2001

It is both admirable in its convictions yet unaware of its limitations; it strives for beauty and meaning, but ends up looking silly.

Full Review | Apr 16, 2001

A credible portrait of an era, and draws in its tensions and conflicts with quite some power.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2001

A soul-satisfying film about one young woman's rite of initiation into adulthood.

Full Review | Apr 6, 2001

Though the script is remarkably faithful to Jennifer Egan's novel, it relies too heavily on voice-over to move the plot along, preferring to baldly inform the audience of developments than letting us figure them out for ourselves.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 26, 2001

The Invisible Circus feels less like a drug trip and more like the annoying side effects on the morning after.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 19, 2001

Strangely dispassionate and uncommitted for a movie about passionate commitment.

Full Review | Feb 16, 2001

It's mostly dreary, plodding stuff that works as psychology 101.

Full Review | Feb 16, 2001

A movie for people who are so sensitive they barely notice the feelings of others or what's going on in the world.

Full Review | Feb 12, 2001

Although well cast and acted, the movie doesn't amount to much. Still, it is an enjoyable enough diversion.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 12, 2001

The slow pace, lack of tension ... and increasingly preposterous developments will have many viewers seeing through this film long before it draws to a slow and laborious close.

Full Review | Feb 9, 2001