Deborah Ross

Why do movies always have to bash the ‘burbs?

Mothers' Instinct is a delicious new melodrama but annoyingly it indulges in all the old clichés about suburban life

Anne Hathaway as Céline, who gives off Jackie Kennedy vibes, in Mothers’ Instinct
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