Jamie and Crystal are vivid '60s types, indelibly played.

| Nov 21, 2018

It should appeal to fans of offbeat character-driven dramas - not to mention fans of Cera himself, who's embracing these morally ambiguous characters with gusto.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 6, 2017

It pootles around in vaguely trippy fashion, relying on loose improvisation as the characters variously get on each other's nerves (and ours) before reaching a collective one-ness with the universe. Or something.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 19, 2014

A trip worth taking.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 17, 2014

Cera's chin may be weak, but his strength as an actor cannot be denied.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 17, 2014

Stretches of improv with passers-by means the film can resemble one of those What the Director Did on His Holidays doodles, yet its breeziness is oddly warming: Silva's open to the elements in ways his blinkered protagonist only claims to be.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2014

While never hugely memorable, it's funny and engaging in the moment.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2014

The film's effect, probably like that of the San Pedro cactus, is pleasant, dreamy, hippy-evanescent and very años sesenta.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2014

The first act seems to promise 70 more minutes of rambling episodes, at the overbearing whim of a director toying with an insufferable protagonist. It's a bit of a shock, then, when Crystal Fairy turns out to be really good.

| Nov 4, 2013

Jamie and Crystal Fairy, though slightly exaggerated for comic effect, are still truer representations of gringo backpackers than I've ever seen on film.

| Aug 1, 2013

[Cera] has transformed himself from one of the most irritating actors of his generation to one of the best.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 1, 2013

Consistently funny and fascinating.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 26, 2013

While the pleasures of Silva's trippy road-trip movie are mostly minor, it still does something major by eliciting Cera's boldest performance to date.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 26, 2013

Shot on the fly, while Silva, Cera & Co. were waiting to make another movie, Crystal Fairy ends up on a beach, and ends up resonating with a pesky charm.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 26, 2013

Part drug comedy, part psychological drama, the movie is slight, but only superficially so.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 25, 2013

The clash of cultures is harrowing and sometimes hilarious.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 25, 2013

"Crystal Fairy" isn't going to be the mind-expanding movie buzz that blows your mind, but in its laconic, trippy way it gets under the skin.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 25, 2013

Writer and director Sebastian Silva based his film on his own experiences but allows his actors so much space and time that you feel as if you could be watching home movies.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 25, 2013

Director Sebastián Silva seems to be whispering that we shouldn't be taken in by the movie's casual, spontaneous feel, that deep matters are afoot. I'm not sold.

| Jul 22, 2013

Silva based the story on a personal experience from his early 20s, which he realizes with vivid detail and wry, humane observation; the humor is sweet and lingers in the memory.

| Jul 19, 2013