To say the third act is an utter hogslop mess is to grossly underplay the messiness of hog slop.

| Jan 6, 2025

Mothers' Instinct delivers a tense, compelling, and thrilling story that leads to constant guessing and reassessing about what could be true.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 4, 2025

This Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway thriller relies on stereotypes it never gets round to subverting.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 11, 2024

The movie still wobbles under the unfortunate weight of obvious plot holes and lapses in logic....But it’s still Chastain and Hathaway – two actresses who make everything they’re in worth seeing. It’s no different here.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 27, 2024

While Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway are luminescent, and the production design suitably eye-popping, all the hard work is let down by a skittering script that refuses to settle

| Oct 4, 2024

The film consists of nothing but the obvious, maudlin sections that convey plot movement and has none of the nuanced scenes that would need to follow and redeem them.

| Aug 19, 2024

An enjoyable thriller from start to finish; one that knows how to keep a few cards up its sleeve and enjoys its two powerful stars. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 19, 2024

“Mothers’ Instinct” gets by on its pulpy potential more than anything else.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 16, 2024

The movie that is is disappointingly bloodless, cold rather than chilling, with a payoff that isn’t shocking so much as an admission that we’ve spent 90 minutes we’ll never get back.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 15, 2024

Chastain and Hathaway barely manage to save this conventional psychological thriller that attempts to study the oppression in the American society of the 1960s. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 13, 2024

Despite some effective character-driven moments, it never fulfills its lofty Hitchcockian ambitions.

| Aug 9, 2024

If it explored the characters more and didn’t try to shoehorn in a drastic twist and tragic ending, it might have come out feeling more substantial and thematic.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 7, 2024

Nevertheless, the performances of Chastain and Hathaway and the film’s striking visual style provide some redeeming qualities despite the film's uneven tone and underwhelming narrative depth.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2024

Mothers’ Instinct could have been campy, overblown fun. Instead, it is too self-serious to even have fun with itself, rendering it a bland mess.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 5, 2024

Hathaway brings a dark intensity to her portrayal of Celine while Chastain's Alice is characterized by a poised composure. Their dynamic is compelling, their role reversal keeps the audience guessing about the character's true intentions and mental state.

| Original Score: 3.5 | Aug 2, 2024

It is slickly made and thoroughly entertaining, flamboyant flourishes and all. But it seems that, with a few minor exceptions, no one really knows what to do with movies like it anymore.

| Jul 31, 2024

Chastain and Hathaway deliver audacious performances in the twist-a-minute thriller.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 30, 2024

The characters in Mothers’ Instinct have no convincing inner lives at all, but the exterior work of the actors playing them is choice stuff.

| Jul 29, 2024

It’s all enough to make it truly difficult to understand what drew these actors to the project — given the pedigree, this is clearly not the movie they thought they were making.

| Jul 29, 2024

The misconceived but morbidly entertaining Mothers’ Instinct is far too slapdash to respect the seriousness of its premise, but at the same time also far too serious to indulge in the campiness of its plot.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 26, 2024