The Silence of the Lambs
Clarice is a top student at the FBI's training academy but in his quest to catch a cannibal killer he employs the help of another serial killer.
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August 12, 2013
As Lecter, Anthony Hopkins gives an astounding performance -- eery, menacing, creepy, believable.
August 12, 2013
Jonathan Demme's hypnotic adaptation of the Thomas Harris novel has a seriousness and intensity that's been entirely lacking in horror movies lately.
August 12, 2013
Jonathan Demme's thriller is artful pulp -- tabloid material treated with intelligence and care and a weird kind of sensitivity.
August 12, 2013
The confrontations between Foster and Hopkins -- facing her from an ultrasecure cell -- are models of chilling intensity.
July 10, 2016
An exquisite piece of filmmaking in which basically not one single thing goes wrong at any point.
February 17, 2015
The movie, scary and graphic to cause timid souls (such as this writer) to close their eyes at certain points, has a vise-like grip on the audience.
August 12, 2013
Hopkins' cumulative screen image is one of civility and decency, and the association adds to the withering, macabre effect of his murderer. It is a remarkably lucid portrait of lunacy.
September 27, 2015
The Silence of the Lambs, with its dark Freudian subtext, its Poe-like air of foreboding and its chillingly gritty characterizations, is simply a very tough and very scary little movie.
February 22, 2013
This multi-Oscar-winning classic, adapted from Thomas Harris's bestseller, was responsible for giving cinematic serial killers a better image, thanks to Anthony Hopkins's enthralling portrayal of Hannibal Lecter.
August 12, 2013
It's a gnarled, brutal, highly manipulative film that, at its center, seems morally indefensible.
July 23, 2013
Has any horror movie equalled it in the past 22 years? Perhaps. But if only one super-gory flick is ever considered worthy enough for the Academy's top prize, I'm fine with this being it.
August 12, 2013
Demme comes at Harris' material from another angle: His movie may deal with madness, but his perspective is mercifully sane.
