Overview
With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.

| Release Date: | 10 October 2025 |
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| Country: | US |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Production Companies: | A24, Central Pictures, Fat City, Bronxburgh |
| Watched by: | 729 of 990 644 |
| Runtime: | 1 hour 53 minutes |
| IMDB Rating: | 6.7 of 10 22 964 |


















Rose is great, as always, but life is bad enough without that. 😢
A24 is certainly strong in experimentation, but either this is again for a certain amateur, or something else..
The film was shot by a woman and again promotes women's themes and subtexts, the difficulties of motherhood and psychologically personal problems.
and from all these themes, thoughts of the heroine, dialogues, you yourself get some kind of psychological impact from everything that happens. there is a feeling of anxiety and anxiety and somehow really uneasy..
as an arthouse experiment, it's possible. but I wouldn't recommend it.
The main victory of the film is that you really believe and feel the heroine's misfortunes and problems. In many similar films, they overdo it, but here everything, with the exception of arthouse moments, is quite mundane and, in my opinion, they managed to withstand the edge. But because of this, you're in suspense for almost the entire viewing, which, of course, not everyone will like.
The right movie for which it is simply impossible to find the right mood.
I sincerely wish A24 bankruptcy and takeover by some mid-tier streaming service.
it's funny and tragicomic))) Are they joking? Who came up with this?
The one who called this work a comedy, of course, is a great "well done." In particular, the representatives of the Golden Globes, who nominated Rose Byrne for best actress in the comedy category. Because I started watching it as a comedy. However, already at the moment when I saw the name of one of the Safdie brothers in the opening credits, a bell sounded alarmingly in my head. However, according to the logo of studio A24, intuition should also have suggested something. Even Mary Bronstein's film can hardly be called a "black" comedy. Even despite the presence of Conan O'Brien in one of the supporting roles. But I didn't bring up this conversation to say that "I would kick you if I could" is a bad movie. It's just that its positioning raises questions. Yes, while watching it, you occasionally get a grin or want to chuckle like "true story," but this is not a comedy. And it's not even a light melodrama.
Bronstein has released a very disturbing tape in the spirit of "Uncut Diamonds" or Safdie's "Good Time," but taking into account the fact that the focus here is not on the criminal element, but on an ordinary woman who is overwhelmed by many things at the same time, and she is trying unsuccessfully all the way to cope with problems and come to the realization that she not a bad mother, not a bad wife, not a bad specialist, and generally not a bad person, and that sometimes you need to be able to forgive yourself.
Everything was shot very well, I would even say "driving" (considering the genre, yes), albeit with some bias towards elitism and otherness - although, perhaps, in some places this is probably due to a meager budget. Sometimes the spirit of David Lynch slips through - the same hole that formed in the bedroom and symbolizes everything. Henry Townsend from the fourth Silent Hill would appreciate it. But nothing crazy. In general, the whole film is perceived as a feverish dream of a man who is on the verge, but whose body is desperately struggling.
I do not recommend it to people with increased anxiety. In the end, the pulse can accelerate to obscene numbers, and the pressure can break through the ceiling. Everyone else, especially people in a similar position, is fine. A great benefit for Rose Byrne - she has earned all her past and future awards (including the Oscars, I hope).
RATING: 4 holes in nowhere out of 5
Very good acting