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The Silence of the Lambs

Oscar™ Best Picture - Winning Movies

1991

Jonathan Demme

Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine ...

8.2

176,036

Thriller. Mystery. Horror Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster), a young and ambitious FBI agent, enlists the aid of criminally insane ex-psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) to help track down a vicious serial killer named "Buffalo Bill" who skins his victims and who has kidnapped a girl, the only daughter of a republican senator.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"True suspense, unblinking horror and an Anthony Hopkins performance that is likely to be referred to for many years when horror movies are discussed. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"A supremely sensuous and hypnotic thriller"	POS
United States	John Hartl Seattle Times	"Director Jonathan Demme gives the term 'horror movie' a new dimension with his hypnotic thriller"	POS
United States	Kathleen Carroll New York Daily News	"An unnerving thriller (...) [a] brilliantly executed adaptation of Thomas Harris’ gristly novel"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"[A] swift, witty new suspense thriller (...) pop film making of a high order"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Tribune	"It's a gnarled, brutal, highly manipulative film that, at its center, seems morally indefensible."	NEG
United Kingdom	Derek Malcolm The Guardian	"The horror genre is elevated into the kind of cinema that can at least be argued about as a treatise for its unsettling times."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The superbly crafted suspense thriller that director Jonathan Demme has made from Thomas Harris's taut best-selling novel 'The Silence of the Lambs' slams you like a sudden blast of bone-chilling, pulse-pounding terror."	POS
United Kingdom	Simon Braud Empire	"Thrilling and scary in equal measure. And what a baddie... (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	BBC	"[Clarice's] encounters with Anthony Hopkins are among the most compelling in recent cinematic history (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	David Ansen Newsweek	"Screenwriter Ted Tally does an excellent job streamlining the novel, and Demme tightens the screws with a mastery that would make any horror veteran jealous"	POS

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