Orlando (1992)

With her title character untethered by time and experiencing life in different male and female forms, Virginia Wolff in 1928 in her book Orlando: A Biography may have debuted the concept of the multiverse, not DC Comics in 1961; Sally Potter's adaptation of Wolff's book is full of painterly detail across the various times and locations, amuses with its sly humour, and lead Tilda Swinton transfixes as Orlando, staring out from the movie like a figure from a series of Romantic paintings come alive.

★★★★★

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Adam (2019)

I kept waiting for the coming-of-age drama to trump me with some unexpected virtue of title character Adam, a teenaged dope who beds a conquest by pretending not to be a cis male, but no, to the end Adam remains a repugnant catfisher, a rapist by deception and character who detracts greatly from this, what?,  comedy's commendable efforts to represent gender fluidity on screen, and what's worse, Adam is given an unlikely reprieve in the end that leaves a taste in your mouth even worse than that left by his dumb campaign of lies.

★★☆☆☆

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