2024 · comedy · parody
Problemista
Directed by Julio Torres1h 44m2024
Alejandro is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in New York City. As time on his work visa runs out, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast becomes his only hope to stay in the country and realize his dream.
Our read: Problemista (2024) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · parody entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / parody, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- inventive
- funny
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“You want dry surreal NYC comedy about immigration, art world eccentrics, and toys.”
Skip it tonight — Deadpan absurdist humor and Julio Torres' awkward energy grate on you.
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