If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Reviews & Ratings

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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You reviews

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You holds a 6.3/10 average from 422 TMDB ratings.

In an age where life’s everyday challenges can test our wits, becoming overwhelmed is a real possibility when they pile up. Just ask Linda (Rose Byrne), a therapist who struggles to sincerely and sensitively assist her troubled patients. But that’s just the start of her problems. She’s also tending to a sick child (Delaney Quinn), the demands of which are considerable, both from the whiny, often-unappreciative young…
— Brent Marchant (9/10)

Rose Byrne turns in a terrific performance here, but I found the thrust of the plot to be just a bit too much like a contrived horror movie. She is “Linda”, a therapist whose husband is off piloting a boat and whose un-named daughter has some form of undefined illness that is putting huge pressure on her mother. Then, just to add to her woes, a water leak in their apartment turns her ceiling into a Swiss cheese and…
— CinemaSerf (6/10)

With truly sincere apologies to Almodóvar, the alternate title to this film could be "Woman in the Throes of a Nervous Breakdown." Mary Bronstein's debut feature captures the absolute insanity of raising a child in this time and place with such visceral precision that watching it feels less like cinema and more like surviving someone else's panic attack in real time. Rose Byrne plays Linda, a therapist whose life is…
— badelf (10/10)

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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