Saw this film at a university screening in June 2019. While its title is somewhat short-sighted in retrospect, this is a good documentary about the problems and opportunities of being transgender in the 2010s. It's told from the point of view of the filmmaker, who is also the mother of a transgender child and a transgender ally. For me, the most powerful moment of the film is the moment when the table of mostly non-transgender people, most of whom have…

This movie has even less of a coherent plot than the video game it’s based on. Which is to say it has negative levels of plot. But it turns out I don’t need plot in my movies to enjoy them immensely. Plot would have hindered this movie.

Taking its design cues from the post-apocalyptic wonderland genre (“Return to Oz”) and the straight-up weird and unsettling sexualized hallucinogenic surrealism of films like “Brazil” and “The 10,000 Fingers of Dr. T,” this…