Well-intentioned but at times insensitive, “Papi Chulo” is a complicated movie. It wants so badly to do the right thing when the situation is all wrong.Written and directed by John Butler (“Handsome ...

Co-stars Matt Bomer and Alejandro Patiño establish an awkward chemistry in this peculiar dramedy about a Los Angeles gay man who hires an undocumented Latino dayworker to keep him company. Let’s say ...

The buddy comedy “Papi Chulo” could go wrong in all sorts of ways, so it’s kind of a minor miracle how much it actually gets right. Funny, empathetic and tender, it pretty much sneaks up and catches ...

Tales of unlikely friendships where an explicit power imbalance is at play tend to suffer from their own saccharine aspirations. Refreshingly more incisive, Irish writer-director John Butler’s “Papi ...

Sean's not having a good time of things. On a break from his job as a TV weatherman for an on-air meltdown and dumped by his boyfriend, after six months he's finally clearing out the last trace of his ...

Let’s say you want to make a movie about the dynamic between middle-class white folks and the undocumented dayworkers they employ (some would say “exploit”) in a city like Los Angeles. There are ...