Although Instinct is strictly a Hollywood formula picture, it's such an efficiently executed one, built around two such outstanding actors, that for the most part you won't mind.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
A perfect example of how solid directing and good acting can almost redeem a derivative story.Read Full Review »
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Slate: David Edelstein
The more subversive Instinct gets in proclaiming free will an illusion fostered by a rigidly repressive society, the more captive it seems to a rigidly repressive studio marketing department.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Lawrence Van Gelder
The medium is more palatable than the saccharine message because Hopkins and Gooding know how to put on a show.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Gary Dauphin
Instinct moves along at a competent clip, but it's mostly a tease.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: John Anderson
A greatest-hits collection of plot devices and emotional cues from such films as "Gorillas in the Mist" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," making it something of a trained chimp, one that apes a lot of good movies while making itself look ridiculous.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
You could be forgiven for thinking -- occasionally -- that you just stumbled into "The Silence of the Apes."Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Rita Kempley
A sloppily structured, snoozily paced psychodrama about living in harmony with nature and all the rest of that tree-hugging hooey.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
If there's anything worse than a movie hammered together out of pieces of bad screenplays, it's a movie made from the scraps of good ones.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Staff(Not credited)
Never mind that the film's portrayal of the mentally ill is on a par with "There's Something About Mary" -- the clumsy moral that we were all better off as hunters and gatherers couldn't be sillier.Read Full Review »
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