A little bitty movie with a great big heart that is nearly impossible to resist.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 6, 2019

Abel and Gordon's relationship on screen is a delight to watch... The pair, along with a wonderful performance by Romy as a goggle-eyed bartender, demonstrate an exacting knowledge of their craft.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2018

It's often a lot of fun with some dance numbers thrown in.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 2, 2012

It's simultaneously a very knowing and strangely innocent film...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 17, 2012

The best that can be said for The Fairy is that it certainly creates its own world. However, it's one I wanted to get out of almost as soon as it began.

| Jul 1, 2012

I personally admired and cringed at about the same time.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 29, 2012

If you like Tati-esque japes, Francophone clowns Abel, Gordon and Romy should be just up your alley.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 28, 2012

All over the place, but somehow it retains a sweet tonal cohesiveness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 28, 2012

A fairy that can't quite cast a spell.

| Jun 27, 2012

For pure entertainment and high-spirited comedy value, The Fairy is as good as any gone before ... once you have seen one of their films, you'll never forget it that's for sure.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 27, 2012

The story cuts corners, so it's not the masterpiece these filmmakers may yet create - but when they're on, this is jolly and so cute you'll sigh.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 26, 2012

Not all of the jokes land perfectly (a late telephone gag treads too much water), but The Fairy remains infectiously funny throughout.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 19, 2012

This has to be one of the most imaginative, articulately planned, strange, wacky, whimsical, unique and flat out hysterical films I have seen in at least a few years.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 31, 2012

As slight and tasty as a Popsicle on a hot day, the movie gets its fun from its freedom, from how regularly its blithe characters find themselves in impossible situations and how effortlessly they wriggle out of them.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 31, 2012

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.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 4, 2012

Its appeal is ... in watching people who have devised their own original style of comic performance and have taken it to a rare level of refinement.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 3, 2012

perfect timing, improvisational talents and [an] exuberant screenplay turn an absurd comedy into a thoroughly enjoyable absurdist comedy

| May 3, 2012

The clownish night clerk and his fairy princess swoop and pratfall through a series of physical vignettes that leave us in stitches.

| May 3, 2012

It's a slight film, and it's over just as you're thinking it should be, but it's both sweet and refreshingly tart...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 26, 2012

The vibe's too rarefied to last the length of a feature film - and it doesn't - but when "The Fairy" is on, it creates entirely new comic synapses in your head.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 19, 2012