It’s... squarely openhearted in depicting what the freshly transitioned must navigate just to be (and explain) themselves, when all anyone else can seem to latch on to is the narrative of change they experience.

“Mutt” doesn’t really travel anywhere except in circles around its beleaguered hero’s falling and rising sense of self-worth. But that’s enough...

A film with a lot on its mind, a frenetic energy to make it to the end of the day, and a character we root for from start to finish.

Mutt very much feels like one very long day from hell. Rather than physical barriers in something like Scorsese’s After Hours keeping our main character from achieving his goal, Feña is bombarded with emotional ones.