If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025)
Directed by Mary Bronstein
With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.
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…or even something like this year’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You…
Along with If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, add this adaptation of Ariana Harwicz’s 2012 novel to the list of 2025 films that capture the complicated and distressing experience of motherhood and marriage.
…with an emerging canon presenting a more clear-eyed portrait of women buckling under domestic stress – in last year’s Nightbitch, this fall’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, and now Lynne Ramsay’s hallucinatory picture of postpartum depression, Die My Love.
…just a few weeks ago, I endured (that’s right, though many of my fellow critics are embracing it) Rose Byrne careening close to the edge in IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU…
…unlike, say, Rose Byrne's beleaguered mom in "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You."
If it were a just world, Lawrence would be in the same Best Actress pool as Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.
(Dorothy’s face is kept off camera, like the daughter in “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.”)
…which she does with a look that rivals Rose Byrne’s in “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.”
…or Mary Bronstein’s film If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025)…