Critic Reviews

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.

His endeavor is one not of major strife but of minor flashes of magic.

Ms. Covi and Mr. Frimmel’s Mister Universo is a disarming and humane picture, an unexpected delight.

The film eventually replaces the captivating smallness of everyday life with an inconsequential drama.