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A Poet
Directed by
Simón Mesa Soto
Not Rated
2026
2h 3m
Comedy
,
Drama
7.9
100%
91%
8.1
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An aging poet finds purpose mentoring Yurlady, a talented teen, though exposing her to the poetry scene might be unwise. His own poetic pursuits led nowhere, leaving him a stereotypical obscure writer.
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Cast of A Poet
Ubeimar Rios
Oscar
Rebeca Andrade
Yurlady
Guillermo Cardona
Efraín
Alisson Correa
Daniela
Humberto Restrepo
Alonso
Margarita Soto
Teresita
Hilda Gutíerrez Lodoño
Damaris
Emmanuel Garcés Botero
Maicol
A Poet Ratings & Reviews
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
Mesa Soto initially mines wry humor from Oscar's sad-sackness; he and editor Ricardo Saravia are especially good at scene transitions that land like a punchline, and the marvelous Rios - small of stature and existentially slumped - cuts a comical figure.
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
A Poet is a relatively small story. Still, it traverses a wide arc, starting out as caustic satire, finally arriving at an understated depth and tenderness.
Not That Rob Thomas (Substack)
Rob Thomas
We end up feeling for this strange, off-putting man, even if we wouldn't want to be sitting on the barstool next to him.
Denerstein Unleashed
Robert Denerstein
Soto's small-scale realism suits material about someone whose life can't, and probably never will, match the way he sees himself, but it lands gently enough to be touching.
Geek Vibes Nation
Phoenix Clouden
A Poet is a reminder that despite our mistakes we can learn from and grow to become a better person.
Chicago Reader
Kat Sachs
A Poet is worth seeing for the moments of genuine emotion and elegiac contemplation, the wry humor, Rios's unguarded performance, and the gritty production design and cinematography.
The Playlist
Ankit Jhunjhunwala
Soto paints broadly and sweeps in several characters & incidents - sight gags & "Curb Your Enthusiasm" style cringe comedy moments abound. But he also leavens "A Poet" with pathos & insight, veering from farce to tragedy with expert code-switching.
NPR
Bob Mondello
Filmmaker Soto casts a skeptical eye on all of this, shooting in grainy 16-millimeter, and using musical scoring to underline the absurdity and pretension.
Sarah G Vincent Views
Sarah Vincent
Who knew that the world needed a satire about society using a local poetry center as the main location and a nebbish, alcoholic poet who had not published in ages as the protagonist?
Arts Fuse
Peter Keough
Elliptical editing mirrors Oscar's poetic - or soused - consciousness. The effect is sardonic, satiric, and endearing.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Christy Lemire
The tone is really deft. There's an understated humor to it, because the central figure is really pathetic, but you come to really feel for him, too.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
That you're never entirely sure if Oscar is going to be the adult or the child in any given scene creates a wonderfully funny tension. It's one of the best performances of this past year and if Rios never acted again, it'd be a one-off for the ages...
RogerEbert.com
Robert Daniels
It's very easy to dismiss a film about a hapless loser. But it's nearly as difficult to ignore a performance like the one Rios gives.
Wall Street Journal
Zachary Barnes
A comedy that's frequently smart in its consideration of art, class, commerce and curdled ambition. But if poetry is about saying a lot in a little, then by the end of its two-hour runtime A Poet comes off more like funny but flabby prose.
Associated Press
Jake Coyle
If Soto's film is loose and gritty, its satire is remarkably precise. This is a farce of creative life where the only pure artistic intention is a joke.
New York Times
Alissa Wilkinson
[The] moral of this story is the one that Oscar learns: To be an artist isn't about living the life of an artist, or saying things that sound like the things an artist might say. It means sitting down, as boring as it can be, and actually making the art.
Slant Magazine
William Repass
This finely shaded character study of a recalcitrant social pariah feels more than anything else like an existential parable.
IndieWire
Ben Croll
Art-world send-up explores the many fears and frustrations the acclaimed director felt in the decade since making... Leidi, channeling them into a darkly-funny burlesque that speaks of verse while playing like a Dan Clowes comic brought to manic life.
Variety
Murtada Elfadl
[The film's] tone shifts from absurdist to serious to satirical and back again. This odd mix should not work, but Soto pulls it off with a sure hand and precisely exacting storytelling.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
Can a good poet be a good person? It's a fascinating question that weaves through Soto's smart film.
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