Anything's Possible

Name: Anything's Possible
Genre: Romance
Released: July 22, 2022
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 62
Cast: Abubakr Ali, Courtnee Carter, Eva Reign, Grant Reynolds, Kelly Lamor Wilson

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Amazon Prime Video | Release Date (Streaming): July 22, 2022 | PG-13

Starring: Abubakr Ali, Courtnee Carter, Eva Reign, Grant Reynolds, Kelly Lamor Wilson, Manu Narayan, Naveen Paddock, Renee Goldsberry, Simone Joy Jones, Tordy Clark

Summary: In this modern Gen Z coming-of-age story, Kelsa (Eva Reign), a confident high school girl who is trans, navigates through senior year. When her classmate Khal gets a crush on her, he musters up the courage to ask her out, despite the drama he knows it could cause. What transpires is a romance that showcases the joy, tenderness, and pain ofIn this modern Gen Z coming-of-age story, Kelsa (Eva Reign), a confident high school girl who is trans, navigates through senior year. When her classmate Khal gets a crush on her, he musters up the courage to ask her out, despite the drama he knows it could cause. What transpires is a romance that showcases the joy, tenderness, and pain of young love. … Expand

Director: Billy Porter

Genre(s): Romance

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 96 min

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Amy Amatangelo

Jul 20, 2022

While never didactic or patronizing, the movie should expand the horizons of some viewers and be validating for others who may see themselves on screen. But to be successful, the movie also has to be entertaining. And Anything’s Possible is. Read full review

Leigh Monson

Jul 19, 2022

Anything’s Possible may be flawed for what it fails to fully develop around the edges of its story, but the central relationship that holds the film together is so compelling that the rest hardly matters. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Tomris Laffly

Jul 22, 2022

Porter’s delightful debut is perhaps most groundbreaking exactly because of this familiarity, one that grants a black, high-school-aged trans girl—a character we rarely see in cinema, if at all—a recognizable youthful tale not defined by bigoted adversity. At least not solely. In other words, what “Anything’s Possible” says is, “Here is a mix of teen romances and comedies you know, but featuring characters you might not have seen before.” Read full review

Kyle Turner

Jul 21, 2022

Unlike its lead characters, Anything’s Possible never quite figures out if it wants to be distinctive or just another kid at school. Read full review

Empire Jordan King

Jul 22, 2022

Buoyed by its leads’ fizzing chemistry and infectious spirit, Billy Porter’s directorial debut may be flawed, but its feel-good vibes and charm make it prime for comfort viewing. Read full review

Dan Callahan

Jul 15, 2022

If only Anything’s Possible had been content to depict this relationship in all its newness onscreen without burdening these two appealing characters with a pile-on of issues more suited to a newspaper editorial than a narrative feature. Read full review

IndieWire Jude Dry

Jul 22, 2022

Unfortunately, in its valiant effort to avoid cliches, the story falls flat. By focusing on what not to do, there’s just not a lot there. Read full review

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TVJerry

Jul 25, 2022

Eva Reign plays yet another high school senior in this romcom. The difference is that the actor and the character are both trans. Reign has a charming confidence in her first lead, while Abubakr Ali makes an engaging suitor (and the first flick of its kind with a Arab Muslim boyfriend). ThisEva Reign plays yet another high school senior in this romcom. The difference is that the actor and the character are both trans. Reign has a charming confidence in her first lead, while Abubakr Ali makes an engaging suitor (and the first flick of its kind with a Arab Muslim boyfriend). This is actor Billy Porter's first directing gig and he does a good job of keeping it fun, while mining some genuine emotions. Also, his hometown of Pittsburg plays a part in the film (look for a quick shot of Porter on a mural). Even with the upbeat energy, the "message" moments tend to get a bit too dominant in the last third. Still, it fills a certain place in the genre and has sufficient personality to make it appealing.… Expand

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JLuis_001

Jul 24, 2022

Billy Porter tries to explore so many themes that it ends up drowning himself when he loses focus between this being a romantic story and what to some extent comes to feel like a lecture about the constant discrimination faced by the LGBTQ youth. And it's not that both plot points are atBilly Porter tries to explore so many themes that it ends up drowning himself when he loses focus between this being a romantic story and what to some extent comes to feel like a lecture about the constant discrimination faced by the LGBTQ youth. And it's not that both plot points are at odds with themselves, it's just that Porter clearly doesn't have the expertise to balance his story and therefore it comes to feel aimless and the part that works the most doesn't get to have a better development, because the general problem with romantic teen films involving characters from that community is that they always have to come with an explanation, instead of allowing things to flow naturally. I mean, there's always the "but" in the question and I find it all the more surprising that this argument is still being used considering that the generation this film is aimed at is much, much more informed. It's a romantic story, let it just be a romantic story, not everything has to carry some big external baggage, because one way or another, the point of films like this is supposed to be that their stories stop being seen as taboo and become completely normal.… Expand

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Mauro_Lanari

Oct 2, 2022

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Who during the high school period (and not only) has been able to avoid naively clumsy behavior? I am not proud of them and I try not to recall them, while others relive them idealized, improbable signs of a lost innocence. This is a movie for them, a "La Boum" (Pinoteau(Mauro Lanari)
Who during the high school period (and not only) has been able to avoid naively clumsy behavior? I am not proud of them and I try not to recall them, while others relive them idealized, improbable signs of a lost innocence. This is a movie for them, a "La Boum" (Pinoteau 1980), which my mother went to see and I didn't, cyclically re-proposed and updated as does also the debutant Porter. A couple of daring suggestions: one could learn from Lucas how to approach the subject with a chorally generational breath ("American Graffiti" 1973). Or one could shoot a biopic about a nonconformist 17-year-old gay who has marked the history of our culture: in "Total Eclipse" (1995) DiCaprio in the role of Rimbaud provided one of his best performances, too bad for the Holland's infamous direction. If feature films of this type are missing, unfortunately there is a reason.… Expand

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