Only loses half a star because they never show where the kolaches are in the donut shop and as someone who is about two years away from his last visit to a Texas donut shop I needed the visual hit. But otherwise this is an excellent study of a sociopath, after Sean Baker's last two films spent time with impoverished sex workers in LA and Orlando we get a fast talking, similarly impoverished sex worker in Texas City Texas, constantly about three seconds away from dooming everyone around him to disaster. Fortunately this is largely a comedy so the radius of the disaster largely just hits himself, with only one other victim. The Trump analogy is never too laboured and remains an undercurrent rather than an overwhelming text, and the tension is maintained well.
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