We live in a society that insists if you work hard, you can probably achieve the goals you’ve set for yourself. But “Problemista,” the first feature film by writer and comedian Julio Torres, which is now in theaters worldwide, poses the question: is working hard always enough? Loosely based off …
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Two well-reviewed indies are taking a bow in limited release in the shadow of Dune, A24’s Problemista by Julio Torres, and Shayda from Sony Pictures Classics, the feature debut of Noora Niasari. Torres, the comedian, actor and writer, in his directorial debut, stars with Tilda Swinton as Problemista gets its …
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Julio Torres extracts the fanciful from the mundane. In his HBO particular My Favourite Shapes, the stand-up riffs on a set of random plastic objects. Maybe probably the most well-known of the deeply authentic, usually shifting sketches he wrote in his tenure at SNL centered on a person (Ryan Gosling) …
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