2024 · mystery · comedy
Poolman
Directed by Chris Pine1h 40m2024
Darren Barrenman, an unwavering optimist and native Angeleno, spends his days looking after the pool of the Tahitian Tiki apartment block and fighting to make his hometown a better place to live.
Our read: Poolman (2024) reads as a warm, steady, inventive mystery · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle mystery / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- gentle
- inventive
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