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His endeavor is one not of major strife but of minor flashes of magic.
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Slant Magazine by Diego Semerene
The film eventually replaces the captivating smallness of everyday life with an inconsequential drama.
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The New York Times by Glenn Kenny
Ms. Covi and Mr. Frimmel’s Mister Universo is a disarming and humane picture, an unexpected delight.
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A docudrama that in its early scenes feels like a documentary — the co-directors have a nonfiction background, and the actors are actual carnival performers — the film plays out like a small-scale fairy tale.