John Krasinski has become in recent years a very important filmmaker, who knows how to create and direct stories that connect with the audience on very deep emotional levels derived from the understanding and communication of the family love. And in IF, his first feature film written and directed exclusively by him, he moves away from the terrifying tone of A Quiet Place parts 1 and 2, and delves into the family atmosphere.

With an opening sequence full of moving emotion, the film focuses on Bea, a 12-year-old girl who, in her pre-adolescent stage, seeks to distance herself from her childish attitudes and actions to face life as a young woman, but who finds herself struggling with fear about a heart surgery that will be performed on his father, who is his only parent after years before his mother lost the battle against cancer. In the midst of this scenario demanding strength, she meets Blossom and Blue, two imaginary friends who live in a small apartment on the top floor of the building where she temporarily lives with her grandmother (while her father is in the hospital awaiting surgery). Blossom and Blue do not live alone, but are accompanied by Cal, a middle-aged man who is responsible for placing the imaginary friends with like-minded children after the children who imagined them stopped needing them and now no longer see them. Thus, Bea embarks on this adventure that is a little complicated, because in addition to Blossom and Blue there are many other imaginary friends living together and waiting for the moment to spend their days with a child again.

The film, beautifully scored by the widely experienced Michael Giacchino, invites us not only to enjoy and entertain ourselves with a well-told story, but to remember our childhood and what it meant to be happy through our childhood imagination. Jess Gonchor's production design on the fair scene, when Bea meets the rest of the imaginary friends, is hilariously colorful and exciting. Cailey Fleming and Ryan Reynolds connect very well as the protagonist couple who lead this creative journey.

Although, before the climax, it is possible to predict something of the outcome, it is still a work that is worth seeing and getting caught up in the memories and emotions that come with them, taking into account that it is “a story that you have to believe to see.”