Playing like the trans equivalent of Love, Simon, Anything's Possible is one of those films in which a pair of older-looking, good-looking privileged (here, non-white) students and their friends negotiate senior year and college applications alongside their own developing relationship, as a cis guy (Khalid) and trans girl (Kelsa) fall in love. It covers all the expected YA tropes - social media, first date, first kiss, friendship fallouts, etc. - led with charm, thought and sensitivity by Eva Reign (as Kelsa) and Abubakr Ali (Khalid) and a notably strong performance by Renee Elise Goldsberry as Kelsa's mother. Any negative issues feel slight and glossily resolved, but ultimately the film is sweet and low-key, with a heartwarmingly sentimental ending to a pleasant and unsensational story.
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