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‘The Great Invisible’ Review: A Wisely Empathetic, If Not Quite Stirring Portrait of the Gulf

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Christopher Campbell
Oct 29, 2014
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The Great Invisible is about oil, big oil, in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s the newest film in this banner year for petroleum-themed documentary, alongside Big Men and Virunga. Yet while those films take a broad look at Africa, this is a project much closer to home. More specifically, it explores the aftermath of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. That pa…

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