False Positive (2021)

After trying to get pregnant for a couple of years, Lucy and doctor husband Adrian decide to reach out to Dr. Hindle, a mentor of his who has had great success in the fertility field. Lucy is almost immediately pregnant with triplets and faced with a "selective reduction" choice to ensure success: either terminate the female or the two boys (who share a sac). Though it's against the doctor's recommendation, the couple decides to move forward with the female.

And then things get silly. It felt like a dumb Rosemary's Baby -- everyone, including Adrian, has an agenda to which Lucy isn't privy. She joins a mommy group and makes a friend (or does she?), gets obsessed with a magical negro midwife (or does she?), gets passed over to run a project she landed at work, finds proof that she's under surveillance (or is she?) and imagines that her husband and Hindle are having a torrid affair (eh... probably not). There's a weirdly Stepfordish nurse who is both the chipper "You've got this" support for Lucy as well as a menacing presence who isn't above coming to Lucy's workplace. Is it "mommy brain" as is suggested on repeat or something more nefarious?

Felt like a waste of time. This has all been handled better in other films. And the "payoff" here is both a letdown and a huge dose of wtf.

D+