Mothers' Instinct

Name: Mothers' Instinct
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: July 26, 2024
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 48
Cast: Alexander Blaise, Anders Danielsen Lie, Anne Hathaway, Baylen D. Bielitz, Caroline Lagerfelt

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Neon | Release Date: July 26, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Alexander Blaise, Anders Danielsen Lie, Anne Hathaway, Baylen D. Bielitz, Caroline Lagerfelt, Jessica Chastain, Josh Charles, Keeley Miller, Lauren Yaffe, Steve Routman, T.L. Flint

Summary: Alice and Celine live a traditional lifestyle with 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.

Director: Benoît Delhomme

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 94 min

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Screen Rant Ben Gibbons

Jan 11, 2025

Mothers' Instinct is a compelling thriller that elevates Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain to incredible heights. The film is a tense and terrifying story of love, loss, and deception that sees people pushed to their limits. Read full review

Richard Lawson

Jul 31, 2024

Mothers’ Instinct is fun, in a throwback sort of a way. The performances are big and appealing; the period stylings are relatively lush for a lower-budget movie. Sure, there’s some silly stuff, overheated moments that merit guffaws—but that’s part of the mission of movies like this. Read full review

Collider Emma Kiely

Aug 7, 2024

Mothers' Instinct is an entertaining, well-acted drama that falters under the weight of its shocking ending. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Mar 27, 2024

Mothers’ Instinct doesn’t breathe: It hasn’t the grandeur of great melodrama, nor the savoir-faire of great noir. Like its mismatched heroines, it’s constantly, twitchily figuring itself out, as we sit tight, intrigued, tensely waiting for it to trip. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Aug 14, 2024

Mothers’ Instinct gets by on its pulpy potential more than anything else. There’s something intrinsically appealing about watching two phenomenal actresses go head-to-head in an old-fashioned melodrama. Read full review

Ross McIndoe

Apr 23, 2024

Benoît Delhomme’s 1960s-set directorial debut can’t decide whether it wants to be considered camp or not, awkwardly pitching itself between a somber drama and antic melodrama. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Mar 27, 2024

The movie starts out very serious and shocking and concludes on a note of pure farce, though I have to say Chastain’s performance has a clenched restraint which is marginally more convincing than Hathaway’s operatic but callow displays of hurt and entitlement. Read full review

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