The Mothers' Instinct review shows Anne Hathaway protecting herself from her worst fear

Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain feud in heavy-handed Hitchcockian thriller. Playing best friends and neighbours whose friendship is destroyed by tragedy. The star leads are ill served by a clunky screenplay by the film's clunky script. The film is a heavy-hearted attempt at a Hitchcockian-style thriller.

Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain star in 60s-set operatic melodrama. Thriller about rich suburban housewives whose picture-perfect lives belie past traumas lacks self-awareness needed to prevent it from being utterly absurd. Mother's Instinct is a comedy-comedy about a suburban suburban housewife whose life is so perfect it's absurd.

Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain star in psychological thriller Mothers' Instinct. The film is Benoit Delhomme's directorial feature debut. It is set in 1960s suburbia and stars the pair as best friends and neighbours. Hathaway on protecting herself from her 'worst fear'

Mother's Instinct is a psychological thriller starring Academy Award winners Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain. The pair play best friends, housewives and neighbours in 1960s suburbia. Hathaway on protecting herself from her 'worst fear' on set: 'It's a job'

Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain can't save this duff suburban psychodrama. This thriller about two Sixties neighbours who fall out following a tragedy frustratingly refuses to go for broke. The film is a duff affair about two neighbours who fell out after a tragedy.