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Susan Stark, Detroit News: Strong performances! Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: 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. Read more
Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times: [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. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Instinct" is a marketing hook attempting to pass itself off as a movie. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: 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 more
Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: Instinct is the second one in a row that Gooding lifts out of mediocrity by the sheer force of his talent, intelligence and personality. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Read more
Gary Dauphin, Village Voice: Read more
Rita Kempley, Washington Post: Sloppily structured, snoozily paced! Read more