23 Hours

4/14/2025

Movies about alternate realities and the multiverse have become increasingly common in recent years, as seen in films like “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (2022) and “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” (2022). And now the latest addition in this genre comes to us from Puerto Rico from writer-director Bruno Irizarry, a sci-fi comedy about a road construction worker, Manolo (Roy Sánchez-Vahamondes), who stumbles upon a fragment of a sacred Taíno medallion with magical powers lost centuries earlier in a remote location on the island, home of a mystical transcendental portal. In the process, he’s whisked away to an alternate version of reality, where he finds life very different from what he’s typically known. Fortunately, he finds much-needed help when he encounters a reality co