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Directed by | Courtney Stephens |
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Cinematography | Rafael Palacio Illingworth |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Invention is a 2024 American drama film, directed and produced by Courtney Stephens, from a screenplay by Stephens and Callie Hernandez. It stars Hernandez, Sahm McGlynn, Lucy Kaminsky, Tony Torn, James N. Kienitz Wilkins, Joe Swanberg and Caveh Zahedi.
It had its world premiere at the 77th Locarno Film Festival on August 11, 2024, and was released on April 18, 2025.
Following the unexpected death of a conspiracy-brained father, his daughter gains access to his patent for an experimental healing device.
It had its world premiere at the 77th Locarno Film Festival on August 11, 2024, where Hernandez won the Pardo for Best Performance in the Present section. [1] [2] [3] It will also screen at the Los Angeles Festival of Movies on April 4, 2025. [4] [5] and New Directors/New Films Festival on April 5, 2025. [6] [7] It is scheduled to be released on April 18, 2025. [8] Prior to, Mubi acquired streaming rights to the film. [9] It began streaming on Mubi on July 4, 2025. [10]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 95% of 19 critics' reviews are positive. Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 67 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
Josh Slater-Williams of IndieWire gave the film a B+ writing: "A playful and perceptive film that does achieve its own sort of magic in seeing just how far you can test the boundaries between metafiction and explicit documentary." [11]