Instinct: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 0 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

17

Instinct" is a marketing hook attempting to pass itself off as a movie.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Lawrence Van Gelder New York Times (Top Critic)

40

[Hopkins and Gooding Jr.] keep Instinct afloat on its sea of simplisms through a succession of climaxes until at last it reaches its unavoidable ending.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Rita Kempley Washington Post (Top Critic)

Sloppily structured, snoozily paced!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jay Carr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

Too simplistic and schematic!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Philip Wuntch Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

Regardless of how familiar the storyline and characters seem, everyone connected with the movie seems to think it's of invaluable importance. Instinct is one suffocatingly pompous flick.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

38

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.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

Heavy on formula and lean on revelation.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Susan Stark Detroit News (Top Critic)

50

Strong performances!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Bob Fenster Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

Gooding hurts the film more than his energetic presence helps it!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Robert Horton Film.com (Top Critic)

Gooding is at his best!
Full Review » 12 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

63

Solid directing and good acting!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Joe Lozito Big Picture Big Sound

50

Full Review » 4 years ago
Rob Gonsalves eFilmCritic.com

20

Yet another spiritual weepie that decries human follies and yet puts a happy face on it all.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Film Threat

30

Full Review » 6 years ago
James Sanford Kalamazoo Gazette

38

anyone who goes to 'Instinct' expecting a terrifying thriller will find 'The Serenity of the Gorillas' is a long, long way from 'The Silence of the Lambs.'
Full Review » 7 years ago
Staci Layne Wilson StaciWilson.com

A guilty pleasure.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Betty Jo Tucker ReelTalk Movie Reviews

How sad to hear Oscar winners Hopkins and Gooding,Jr. utter melodramatic dialogue during most of their scenes together.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Leonard Schwarz Palo Alto Weekly

38

Full Review » 9 years ago
John R. McEwen Film Quips Online

70

Full Review » 9 years ago
Pablo Villaca Cinema em Cena

40

Seu titulo poderia ter sido 'O Silencio dos Gorilas Sonhando com a Liberdade no Ninho'.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Chuck Rudolph Matinee Magazine

0

A sanctimonious, heavy-handed conundrum of feel-good cliches and bad-faith intentions.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality and Practice

A psychologically rich film about animal and human nature.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Gary Thompson Philadelphia Daily News

In Instinct, the back-to-nature business takes on a misanthropic tone and a nasty malignancy.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jason Kaufman Citysearch

Most of the drama here is in terribly poor taste, with grown men smashing their heads against walls and wetting themselves.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Widgett Walls Needcoffee.com

30

A lot of naysayers dubbed it 'One Flew Over the Silence of the Gorillas in the Mist'. And, well, they were right.
Full Review » 12 years ago