John Butler's engaging dramedy pivots on the improbable friendship between an Anglo TV weatherman and a Mexican day laborer in L.A. In “Papi Chulo,” a scrupulously low-key and unassumingly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...