Love, Simon

Greg Berlanti's Love, Simon delivers layers of affectionate humor in the telling of this coming out story of high school senior Simon Spier (Nick Robinson) who begins to correspond via email with another secretly gay student at his high school whom he knows simply as Blue. A virtual romance blossoms (mostly in Simon's fertile imagination) and is kept from Simon's unbelievably cool parents (Jennifer Garner and Josh Duhamel) and his devoted buddies (Katherine Langford, Alexandra Shipp and Jorge Lendeborg Jr.). When his correspondence is discovered by a classmate (a wonderfully irrepressible Logan Miller), Simon concocts ways to keep his deluded blackmailer happy, all of which, of course, go sideways. This affirming picture is brimming with charm and wit, none of which is barbed. Simon's dilemma is ultimately resolved, of course, but it serves as a fairly pointed lesson about the interconnections of our lives and loves. Tony Hale as Assistant Principal Worth and Natasha Rothwell as drama coach Ms. Albright add delicious helpings of sauce to the mix.