The superbly crafted suspense thriller…slams you like a sudden blast of bone-chilling, pulse-pounding terror.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Rita Kempley
Delicious with foreboding, a masterly suspense thriller that toys with our anticipation like a well-fed cat.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Susan Wloszczyna
A movie with this kind of haunting power comes along only once every decade or so. [20 February 1991, Life, p.11D]Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Sheila Benson
Hopkins' insinuating performance puts him right up there with the screen's great bogymen. [13 February 1991, Calendar, p.F-1}Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
A smart, restrained entertainment, it doesn't splash around in blood and hysteria. It doesn't have to.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Vincent Canby
All sorts of macabre things have gone on, and are still going on just offscreen, in Jonahan Demme's swift, witty new suspence thriller.[14 February 1991]Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Chilling and creepy, and there's no denying that the most celebrated aspect of the film -- the Clarice/Hannibal connection -- could not have been accomplished with greater skill.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
It has been a good long while since I have felt the presence of Evil so manifestly demonstrated as in the first appearance of Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs.Read Full Review »
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