Film Reviews: If I Had Legs I'd Kick You is viscerally intense and stress-inducing

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You revolves around an exceptional performance from the Oscar-nominated Rose Byrne, who spends most of the movie in extreme close-up as we absorb the nerve-shredding terror of a mother who believes that she’s getting it fatally wrong.
Film Reviews: If I Had Legs I'd Kick You is viscerally intense and stress-inducing

Rose Byrne stars in If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

Fri, 20 Feb, 2026 - 12:00
Declan Burke

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

★★★★☆

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