Hailing from Hernandez and Courtney Stephens, the latter of whom is in the director's chair, Invention acts as a mix of autobiography and metafiction, putting its star at the forefront. The movie ...

“Invention” plays at the Metrograph in New ... Since then, she's undeniably popped more as an ensemble highlight in both studio movies and weirder independent fare from exciting auteurs.

In Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez’s dizzying docu-fiction, an Edenic landscape becomes a backdrop for duplicity and paranoia.

“Invention” is the sort of D.I.Y. project that’s tough not to admire, even if its aims remain stubbornly private. This strange, personal movie is a mind meld between the experimental filmmak ...

This is thankfully not the case with “Invention,” a compact ... popped more as an ensemble highlight in both studio movies and weirder independent fare from exciting auteurs.