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"Heavy pain exquisitely rendered."
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A moving experience for all those lost
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The sketch-style of Netflix's 'If Anything Happens I Love You' is rapturous —Mashable

Netflix delivers 2020's most devastating, heartwrenching 12-minutes of drama

This minor masterpiece is up there with the best of Pixar when it comes to eliciting emotion and delivering devastating drama.

A Couple Faces the Pain of Unspoken Grief in ‘If Anything Happens I Love You’ —Animation World Network

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Laura Dern, Rashida Jones Join Forces for Powerful Gun Control Short

Could If Anything Happens I Love You provide similar hope to a nation torn apart by gun violence? If the attitude that night was any indication, McCormack and Govier earned a few new fighters.

Laura Dern Voices Support for Gun Violence Victims at If Anything Happens I Love You Screening

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For the first week, nothing happened. Then the notifications began.

She called Mateo, breathless. “Who dared you?”

She didn’t delete the photo. Instead, she copied her father’s whiteboard string into a text file, added a timestamp, and sent it to a journalist at The Intercept . Then she changed her profile picture to a black square.

It started with a dare.

It wasn’t the mug. It was what was behind her on the balcony: a whiteboard visible through the sliding glass door, covered in scribbled notes. Her father had been a cryptographer—an eccentric, semi-paranoid mathematician who believed the future would be fought not with bombs but with keys. On that whiteboard, half-erased, was a string of characters: an algorithm seed he’d been testing.