Problemista

Name: Problemista
Genre: Comedy
Released: March 1, 2024
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 68
Cast: Catalina Saavedra, Greta Lee, Isabella Rossellini, James Scully, Julio Torres

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A24 | Release Date: March 1, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Catalina Saavedra, Greta Lee, Isabella Rossellini, James Scully, Julio Torres, Laith Nakli, Logan J. Alarcon-Poucel, Spike Einbinder, The RZA, Tilda Swinton

Summary: Alejandro (Julio Torres) 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 (Tilda Swinton) becomes his only hope to stay in the country and realize his dream.

Director: Julio Torres

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 98 min

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Zachary Barnes

Feb 29, 2024

Problemista is a brilliant comedy of the surreal and the absurd, and it finds no shortage of either in the bureaucratic processes of immigration. Read full review

Mark Kennedy

Feb 27, 2024

Problemista is not like a Wes Anderson-type hyper-whimsy, but more like the surreal bursting joy of “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” It even breaks space and time like the latter. It is absolutely captivating. Read full review

IndieWire Rafael Motamayor

Mar 17, 2023

Problemista is not just funny, however, it is also rather earnest and compassionate towards its characters. Read full review

Jenny Nulf

Mar 25, 2024

Torres mixes in everything that makes his specific brand of comedy unique into Problemista: Alejandro's toy pitches are obscurely sassy, his imaginative use of CGI and costuming is fantastical, and his dry delivery is the perfect juxtaposition to the film's outlandish absurdity. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Monica Castillo

Feb 29, 2024

Knowing Julio Torres’ previous work is the key to understanding his feature debut “Problemista,” which combines his love of design, the inner lives of toys, surrealism, and whimsy into a race against the clock, the immigration system, and the art scene in New York City. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Mar 14, 2024

Problemista becomes the Great Tilda’s grandest playground, a chance to wear the wacky fashions, keep her hair at its unruliest and let her furious freak flag fly in the best “I want to speak to the manager” send-up ever. Read full review

Ed Gonzalez

Feb 26, 2024

The film doesn’t lock on a target long enough for it to work up a head of steam as satire about the art world and how it thrives on nepotism, let alone one about the frustrations of the immigration process. Read full review

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