Having, and caring for, children is not for the faint of heart, and you don’t need to be a mom to know it. Why are they crying, and why won’t they stop? Why will they not accede to reason and logic, like normal people? Why did I have them, and is it too late to send them back? Some mothers won’t confess to having those feelings, but that doesn’t mean they’ve never had them. Being a mother is perhaps the most sanctified role in human civilization. What woman would ever want to admit she’s botching it?

Writer-director Mary Bronstein’s jagged black comedy If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is an expressive blurt of a movie, a nightmare vision fueled by all the things anxious moms don’t want to come out and say. Rose Byrne stars as Linda, a Montauk mom and therapist who’s trying to hold everythin

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