IF tries to wow us with celebrity voices and visual gags about melting marshmallows, but never quite settles into itself.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 10, 2024

The movie adopts a safe and comfortable narrative for children while featuring deeper themes of loss, grief, hope and love.

| Nov 6, 2024

This is a film aimed at the young and easily impressionable, and how unabashed it is about the way it courts those viewers works in its favor. Until it really doesn't.

| Sep 16, 2024

It may be slightly lacking in terms of laughter, aiming for the heartstrings instead, but given the dearth of quality family entertainment recently, <i>IF</i> is a welcome tonic.

| Original Score: 3 | Sep 4, 2024

Each viewer will be able to take something rather emotional away from this family film’s reflections on the fleeting nature of childhood while also having an overall fun time at the movies.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 2, 2024

Written and directed by John Krasinski, IF tries to re-connect with the child inside everyone. Ryan Reynolds reins in his usual on-screen persona to deliver a measured performance opposite Cailey Fleming - managing to make IF truly magical.

| Aug 29, 2024

If Krasinski's The Hollars was an agonizing exercise in indie quirk, IF is a torturous dive into mainstream mirth, from a filmmaker who turns pathos into a deadly weapon.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 20, 2024

IF is one movie that has a terrific cast from Fleming to Reynolds and all the cameos who voice the IFs.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 19, 2024

... Krasinski’s "IF" is an unexpected throwback that nails the difficulty of childhood and the transition into adulthood without talking down to its audience while strangely forgetting to explore stated elements of the narrative ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 13, 2024

Krasinski displays a lot of charm and filmmaking prowess in certain sequences, with a uncynical sincerity that shines through in a lot of other places on the screen.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 5, 2024

Cute movie, as long as you don't think about anything in it for more than two seconds. Once you do, it starts to feel a little creepy.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 25, 2024

Krasinski knows how to reach each member of the family differently making for a good family movie night that sparks creativity and tugs at the heartstrings.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 10, 2024

Krasinski makes a strong case for the necessity of play in cinema, and the product is a heartwarming tearjerker that provides not only an enjoyable film that works for all the family, but one that asks you to reconnect with who you are

| Jul 9, 2024

...an appealing premise that is, for the most part, employed to underwhelming and uninvolving effect by Krasinski...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 9, 2024

IF is quite unique, but that uniqueness might make it difficult to find a massive audience in theaters, as this film is not what you expect.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 3, 2024

This Pixar-ish fable by John Krasinski falls a little short of the films it resembles.

| Jun 24, 2024

IF ultimately illustrates how Krasinski has some filmmaking acumen and good, original ideas, but doesn’t know enough about cockles yet to attempt to stoke them. Be gentle with the cockles, bro. They’re delicate.

| Jun 20, 2024

"IF" never knows who its audience is. Too silly for a drama and too dramatic for a comedy.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 18, 2024

It is not a bad thing to be reminded of how important it is to embrace the past... It’s those pesky reality moments that prove to be too much of a sticking point for the production to be the comforting tale it should have been.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 13, 2024

Fleming is able to navigate a film that requires her to interact primarily with CGI characters with a sincerity that helps the audience believe in them as well.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 13, 2024