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Maternal Instinct should come with a complimentary pillow for when the third-act CGI soup inevitably kicks in.
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2026 · Documentary / Crime
Maternal Instinct
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An absolute cinematic disaster.
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Documentary / Crime
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@SCREEN_SHADE2025-12-20 01:00 UTC
Maternal Instinct: where physics filed for emotional distress and lost.
@LATE_SHOW_LURKER2025-12-10 08:00 UTC
Counted four explosions before the studio logo finished. Maternal Instinct knows its audience.
@TRAILER_TROLL2025-12-20 06:00 UTC
Maternal Instinct is two hours of talking heads agreeing with themselves on a moving B-roll.
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r/criticalkino · u/PracticalFX_Stan🔥 0.4k points
Unpopular opinion: Maternal Instinct is the most overrated film of the decade
Rewatched Maternal Instinct last night and noticed even more plot holes than the first time. The motivations don't track at all once you stop and think about act two.
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r/boxoffice · u/CinephileCynic🔥 2.6k points
[Serious Discussion] Is anyone else completely checked out by the pacing in Maternal Instinct?
Look, I wanted to love Maternal Instinct. The trailer had me hyped. But sitting through the second hour felt like a homework assignment. The dialogue is exposition stacked on exposition and the score keeps telling me how to feel.
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r/boxoffice · u/ReelTalkRanter🔥 1.5k points
Why does no one talk about how mid the writing in Maternal Instinct actually is?
Just got out of Maternal Instinct and I'm convinced critics are being paid in residuals. Two genuinely good scenes do not make a film. Convince me otherwise.
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r/criticalkino · u/ReelTalkRanter🔥 4.8k points
Hot Take: Maternal Instinct's third act ruined what could have been a masterpiece
Director clearly thought Maternal Instinct was deeper than it is. There's a difference between ambiguous and unfinished, and this leans hard into the second.
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