‘Olmo’ Review: A New Mexican Coming-of-Age Comedy

Fernando Eimbcke’s film, set in Las Cruces, finds tenderness and turmoil in a 1970s Mexican American household.

American coming-of-age comedies rarely beat with such uncomfortable verisimilitude. In the bilingual “Mustache” — the first feature from writer-director Imran J. Khan — 13-year-old Pakistani American high schooler Ilyas (Atharv Verma) undergoes an awkward adjustment from a private Islamic institution to a generic Ameri