Transamerica wins you round by declining to grandstand on sexual or political issues, by not banging any drum in Bree's cause, by not demanding victim status for Bree or making authentication of her new sexual identity a condition of finding her attractive or sympathetic.
Everything about Transamerica is fraught and complicated, yet writer/director Duncan Tucker somehow creates from these intractable materials a very easy and even happy comedy. And he is helped by Felicity Huffman, giving one of the funniest, subtlest performances to be seen this year.
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