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  Review by eugenen ★★★★ 1

  Michael Cera plays a legendary self-absorbed asshole, but the biggest accomplishment of his performance – and of the movie – is the way that his character transforms, without moving a muscle, from almost unwatchably insufferable to uncomfortably recognizable. The key is the dawning realization of how genuinely important the hunt for the hallucinogenic cactus is to this guy – not as some sort of brass ring or poseurish hipster status symbol, but as an experience that he truly wants to have. And haven’t you ever unleashed your inner control freak – and risked looking ridiculous or mean – when faced with something risky and fragile that you really truly want and that well-intentioned others might jeopardize if you’re not vigilant?…

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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★½

  "That's like Doors of Perception type shit you're saying, you know? You ever read that book? You know that book? Aldous Huxley? The Doors of Perception?"

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  Review by fi ♡

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  what the FUCK was that completely random jumpscare and why is no one talking about it

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  Review by basty2049 ★

  La estrella en esta review es solo por el Michael cera. es realmente curioso que este actor tenga peliculas chilenas en su filmografía, una pena que sea tan Flop (zzz)

  
  2 cactus de 10

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  Review by robyn ★★★★

  Michael Cera plays my absolute favourite performance I've seen of him in this, an insufferable middle class prick bothering the locals and killing everyone's fucking buzz. I relished in hating this, it's delicious.

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  Review by m ★★★

  Michael cera is jealous of a cool girl the whole movie

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  Review by Martho ★★★½

  Michael Cera's Poop :o

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  Review by ♡‧₊*:・aleka ･:*₊‧♡ ★★★★

  white guy trips once and learns basic empathy

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  Review by Chip ★★★

  Watching this makes me want to go to the beach and get high but not hang out with Michael Cera.

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  Review by 🌊Paolo🌊 ★★★★½

  Crystal’s unapologetic authenticity contrasts sharply with Jamie’s calculated pursuit of a transcendental experience. The clash between his Americanized preconceptions and the Chilean reality forms a subtle undercurrent — His initial disregard for cultural sensitivities and his eventual awakening to the complexities of a foreign environment mirror his personal journey of self-discovery, since…

  This is a story about “the birth of compassion in someone’s life.”

  Or, as I’d like to add, “the birth of authenticity” as well. I mean, even what should be the hallucinatory scenes, an escape from absolutely concrete perception, end up being far more authentic than in any other movie. We never get to see anything, but we get to FEEL everything.

  
  Atacama desert road-trip, feet out the windows, tongues out. These dunes have ears: when the wind blows over, our lips are covered in sand.

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  Review by Hunter ᴴᴰ ★★★★★

  Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus made me realize I want to strip naked, write my name with rocks, and leave that name/ego I made up for myself behind. Honest and humorous in a different type of way. There’s some kind of weird magic about an adventure, meeting a stranger or getting to know yourself more, and definitely this atypical movie about growth and true experiences.

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  Review by Andy Ferguson ★★★★

  Sebastian Silva has done a much needed, fairly remarkable service for the career of Michael Cera: he's given him two consecutive roles to finally break the quirky actor out of the typecast characters that he has been stuck with for ages now.

  In both Magic Magic, and now Crystal Fairy, Cera offers up new sides of his comedic persona, bringing forward notes of incredibly bizarre awkwardness unlike anything we've seen from him before. It is obvious that Silva pushes him to strive for new depths, and he achieves wildly enjoyable results in both of the writer/director's new films. It's hard to say which of the two performances I prefer over the other, so I'll go ahead and call it a…