News Summary

• Dolls is a new short film written and directed by Geena Rocero and produced by Lilly Wachowski.
• It concerns a private investigator who’s been sent to infiltrate a purported cult that claims to be a self-help group, exclusively for trans women.
• The score, by Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Susie Ibarra, is appropriately unsettling: a mix of lingering piano riffs and sudden, intense bursts of strings.
• But the moments of tenderness between its members as they bond and process their trauma at times left me wondering otherwise.