NEW YORK — Rose Byrne has scored with “Star Wars,” horror (“28 Weeks Later”) and raucous comedy (“Bridesmaids,” “Platonic”). Yet it’s her towering work as a super-stressed mother and therapist in the ...

One might describe what goes down in "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You" as the mother of all bad situations. In writer/director Mary Bronstein's psychological dark comedy (in select theaters now, nationwide ...

Rose Byrne possesses a singular kind of gravitational pull. While the Australian actress has never quite been the centre of her many big-screen projects (Bridesmaids was Kristen Wiig’s show to steal, ...

In her latest film, a pitch-black comedy for which she won the Berlin Film Festival's best actress prize and could land her first Oscar nom, the Aussie plays a woman whose life is literally and ...

Maternal sacrifice is in vogue politically. The new movie “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” shows where it can lead. By Amanda Hess Several years ago, the filmmaker Mary Bronstein found that her inner life ...

Linda (Rose Byrne) is having a hard time. Wait, that’s not quite selling it enough. “A hard time” suggests this beleaguered, bewildered mother needs to overcome an obstacle or two. What Linda is ...

Everyone is finally able to see Rose Byrne at her most unlikeable. As Linda in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and is out now, Byrne brings a ...

Rose Byrne is the star of If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, but the movie's most important character is never shown onscreen — and that's exactly how writer-director Mary Bronstein wanted it. The Australian ...

When something in culture becomes too monolithic to ignore, the logical next step is to parody it. The more an image proliferates in the world, the more nagging it is, and naturally, our brains twist ...

"I have a theory that if something is for everybody, it's for nobody," Bronstein said of her hyper-specific portrait of a therapist and mother in freefall. Her star Byrne gives a colossal performance, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. From the moment it begins, Mary Bronstein’s “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” aims to put you inside the head of a ...