Rose Byrne Delivers a God-Level Performance in Anxiety-Inducing 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You'

17 years after her first feature, writer-director Mary Bronstein makes her long-overdue return with If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, an intense, darkly comedic psychodrama so assertively crafted, it feels like it should be announcing the arrival of a bold new voice in filmmaking. In some ways, maybe it is. Featuring a god-level performance from Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You charts an overburdened New York therapist’s harrowing odyssey through dealing with her child’s unspecified illness, an absentee husband, and increasingly combative therapy sessions with her own coworker.

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