If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025)

Unrelenting and suffocating, this new mom-gone-crazy film transports you into this venomous state of despair, frustration, rumination and supreme irritability by asking two questions: “what’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to you?” and “what’s the worst thing that happened to you today?” 

Rose Byrne is absolutely fantastic. After seeing her in Bridesmaids and Spy I knew this women could do anything and so happy to see her finally acknowledged as someone who can really ACT. Her simmering rage was so visceral and guttural. I was getting chills. 

It made me think of the 2024 Chinese film Decision to Leave. Both movies are about the outsize systemic oppression faced by women. In Decision to Leave, Li Hong and her daughter both fight for the ability to work, in addition to all they shoulder at home, just so they'd be able to leave the relationship if things got too rough. In If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, Linda complains to her absent husband that parts of what's crushing her is precisely that in addition to the household responsibilities, she also has to work.