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Jess Gabor plays Christy’s teenage girlfriend, a thwarted first love who lingers as a great what-if in Christy’s life before resurfacing at a crucial time.
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2025
Companies are superpowering their teams with AI to run thousands of what-if scenarios across sourcing, production, and logistics.
—Rick Morris, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Bigelow’s work is procedural to its core, and that this film is a speculative what-if is made all the more horrifying because of its banality.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025
Acuña to the Royals is the type of what-if move that would've had quite the snowball effect on MLB.
—Andrew Wright, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2025
Companies are superpowering their teams with AI to run thousands of what-if scenarios across sourcing, production, and logistics.
—Rick Morris, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Bigelow’s work is procedural to its core, and that this film is a speculative what-if is made all the more horrifying because of its banality.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025
Acuña to the Royals is the type of what-if move that would've had quite the snowball effect on MLB.
—Andrew Wright, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
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“What-if.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/what-if. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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