"A film that's too shallow for the seriousness of its story"
David Ehrlich: IndieWire
Set in the early '60s, best friends and neighbors Alice (Jessica Chastain) and Celine (Anne Hathaway) both live an idyllic traditional lifestyle with manicured lawns, successful husbands, and sons of the same age. Life's perfect harmony is suddenly shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond a psychological battle of wills begins as the maternal instinct reveals its darker side.
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Critics' reviews
"'Mothers' Instinct' doesn't breathe: It hasn't the grandeur of great melodrama, nor the savoir-faire of great noir"
Guy Lodge: Variety
"The beats are played as unsubtly as you’d expect within a melodrama that was likely aspiring to the highs of Douglas Sirk, but it crucially understands that sincerity is the key to selling such broad emotion"
Alistair Ryder: The Film Stage
"The fatal mistake with this film... is that it takes itself so drearily seriously and seems to think it's offering an incisive critique of mid-20th century patriarchy, or some such"
Leslie Felperin: The Hollywood Reporter
"A film that's too shallow for the seriousness of its story"
David Ehrlich: IndieWire
"The film awkwardly pitches itself between a somber drama and antic melodrama (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
Ross McIndoe: Slant
"Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain excel in psychodrama that's either ludicrous on purpose or just by accident (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
Donald Clarke: Irish Times
"Susan Sontag famously defined camp as 'a seriousness that fails'. Where does that leave failed camp? Exhibit A: the duffness of 'Mothers' Instinct' (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
Tim Robey: Telegraph
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