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Basic Instinct (1992)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   C+ Source Brief Review Grade* Austin Chronicle Kathleen Maher "Even without the controversy, Basic Instinct is a cold and heartless movie." more... C   Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "The film is like a crossword puzzle. It keeps your interest until you solve it. Then it's just a worthless scrap with the spaces filled in." more... C   filmcritic.com Christopher Null "Utterly stupid yet completely memorable..." more... B   Rolling Stone Peter Travers "...gory, lurid, brutally funny and without a politically correct thought in its unapologetically empty head." more... B   Washington Post Desson Howe "Principals Douglas and Stone give you little to really care about." more... C- * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)