Motherhood has become the new psychological thriller genre.

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The Oscar buzz surrounding Rose Byrne's new film If I Had Legs I'd Kick You is only getting louder, with the anxiety-inducing , genre-bending flick described as a "dark comedic psychological drama ."

The film, about a mother whose child has an unnamed chronic condition that includes a refusal to eat, is, at times, a hard watch.

Byrne is brilliant as the harangued, existentially exhausted Linda, whose absent husband only offers dismissive criticism over the phone, while she tries to balance her own work as a therapist with the constant demands of her (mostly off-screen but eve