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"Magical Universe" is a tender portrait of the artist as a weirdly gifted, wildly prolific and strange man.
November 6, 2014 | Full Review… -
While Mr. Workman evidently respects Mr. Carbee's talent, he also frames his movie as a trite narrative about a kind of lovably odd acquaintance who comes out of his shell, without many incisive ideas about shaping or broadening the material.
October 30, 2014 | Full Review… -
To varying degrees of success, it attempts to prominently display Al Carbee's creations, yet keeps undermining his art in favor of investigating his skewed relationship to everyday realities.
October 30, 2014 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review… -
A whiff of the strange never quite lifts from the real-life story of Al Carbee, a Maine outsider artist who converted his ramshackle home into a cavernous diorama for Barbie dolls.
October 29, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… -
This story is about tenderness and empathy, including Carbee's for his plastic proxies.
October 28, 2014 | Full Review… -
Carbee is such a benign, downright lovable presence, and so obviously tickled by the attention, that the film doesn't seem at all exploitative.
November 3, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
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