This darkly seductive, flawlessly acted piece is worlds removed from most horror films. Here monsters have their grandeur, heroes their gravity. And when they collide, a dance of death ensues between two souls doomed to understand each other.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Staff (Not credited)
The film itself represents movie craftsmanship -- elegant, dark, alluring, frightening, mesmerizing -- at its best.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
To my surprise, Ratner does a sure, stylish job, appreciating the droll humor of Lecter's predicament, creating a depraved new villain in the Tooth Fairy (Ralph Fiennes), and using the quiet, intense skills of Norton to create a character whose old fears feed into his new ones. There is also humor, of the uneasy he-can't-get-away-with-this variety, in the character of a nosy scandal-sheet reporter (Philip Seymour Hoffman).Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
Red Dragon is certainly an improvement on “Hannibal.” It has something the Ridley Scott movie didn’t -- a good story -- and it will no doubt keep the franchise rolling in dough.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
As Hopkins's Lecter is concerned, it's official: He's Freddy Krueger.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
A thriller made from a completist's checklist rather than with a cultist's passion.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
For all its brilliant touches, Dragon loses its fire midway, nearly flickering out by its perfunctory conclusion.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Staff (Not credited)
Red Dragon is merely the distant echoes of what we liked about "Lambs."Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: A.O. Scott
The entire picture is a third-generation Xerox copy, in part because adapting Mr. Harris's books for the screen seems to turn directors into rigid formalists.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
There's no freshness here, no sense of newness or discovery. In its place, there's an earnest desire not to drop the ball, a determination to risk as little as possible in keeping this golden egg from cracking wide open.Read Full Review »
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