“The Invisible Man,” Reviewed: A Horror Film of Diabolical Twists and Empty Showmanship
The writer and director Leigh Whannell’s new, loose adaptation of H. G. Wells’s 1897 novel “The Invisible Man” harks back to a much earlier invisible-man tale: the Ring of Gyges, from Plato’s Republic. Gyges found a ring that could turn him invisible, and he used the power to become a rapist—to …
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