Tina (Carlie Guevara), a streetwise Mexican trans woman, supports her equally undocumented grandmother as an Uber driver in New York. She adores her granny, but Tina is not one to take advice from old people. Is there an actor out there more trusting than Ed Asner? He plays Tina’s shrink, gently trying to chip away at her tendency to clam up when the topic turns to gender dysphoria. She’s dating a guy, but his refusal to bring her home to meet the folks is bringing things down. And there’s another man in her life, Chris (Anthony Abdo), the glazed-out pariah who works the register of Tina’s local convenience store. All that’s known about Chris is what we’re able to read into his facial expressions, which appear to indicate a self-loathing homophobe at the wheel. Guevara is so good you wish the film had offered her character a better, less predictable fate. Skip this and track down a copy of Breakfast on Pluto. (2019) — Scott Marks
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