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St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joe Williams
Do yourself and your kids a favor. On the way to multiplex to see "The Avengers," tell them The Fairy is about an all-powerful superheroine. Someday, they'll find the words to thank you.
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New York Post V.A. Musetto
This is the third feature by the three gifted stars, who deftly pull off hilarious, nearly wordless slapstick routines reminiscent of Jacques Tati, Buster Keaton and Jerry Lewis.
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Boston Globe Ty Burr
The Fairy may be as close as we'll ever get to a live-action cartoon.
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
One's enjoyment of The Fairy depends a lot on knowing why it's worth seeing. It's a comedy with two or three big laughs, but it's not side-splitting. Nor does it have a particularly compelling story. Its appeal is rather in watching people who have devised their own original style of comic performance and have taken it to a rare level of refinement.
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Village Voice
While every scene is art-directed with zest and innovatively staged, The Fairy rarely inspires outright laughter. At least it respects its influences more than does "The Artist."
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NPR Mark Jenkins
Deeply silly in a classic mode, The Fairy continues the French new wave of near-silent cinema.
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Slant Magazine Bill Weber
Re-employing the tools of Jacques Tati and Jerry Lewis, this pleasant fable reclaims artful slapstick with a bliss that's hard to deny.
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Time Out New York David Fear
Deadpan clownishness is The Fairy's raison d'être and its superior mode; when the lovey-doveyness turns cloying and the atrophied message-mongering creeps in, you wish the threesome knew when to keep their traps shut.
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New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
The persistent whimsy gets a bit wearisome, but it's hard to dismiss any film so determined to make us happy.
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50
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The New York Times Manohla Dargis
An alternately effortless and forced French-language diversion.
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