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The Silence Of The Lambs is my all time favorite movie. The actors, story, scenery, EVERYTHING about this movie is absolutely amazing and riveting. Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins absolutely give amazing performances. The character of Hannibal...
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The Silence Of The Lambs is my all time favorite movie. The actors, story, scenery, EVERYTHING about this movie is absolutely amazing and riveting. Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins absolutely give amazing performances. The character of Hannibal Lecter, played by Anthony Hopkins, is probably one of the best villains in any movie you’ll ever see. Although Hannibal Lecter is a cold blooded serial killer, you can never truly despise him, and in fact will find yourself fascinated by him. Another great actor in the film that needs mentioning is Ted Levine, who plays Buffalo Bill. His performance is so creepy, that you have to see it to believe it. If you are a fan of crime or horror movies, then you MUST see this movie.

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Posted sep 25, 2008 8:13 am pt

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Sweeping all five major Academy Awards ("Oscars" for Best Movie, Director, Actor, Actress, Screenplay) is quite an accomplishment. Doing it nearly a year after a film was released is a miracle considering the notoriously short attention...
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Sweeping all five major Academy Awards ("Oscars" for Best Movie, Director, Actor, Actress, Screenplay) is quite an accomplishment. Doing it nearly a year after a film was released is a miracle considering the notoriously short attention span of Oscar voters. It is a powerful example of how great a movie can be when superb writers, directors, actors, and others work at the top of their craft.

With Silence of the Lambs comes some much needed recognition for the horror genre. It is a first-rate production all around. It boasts a witty and suspenseful script based on the Thomas Harris novel, full of great lines. It has marvelous direction from Demme. Demme creates suspense very well throughout and uses some great directorial shots such as the twin frames of Clarice ringing a doorbell and the FBI men breaking into a home. The two lead actors won oscars for their performances...each deserved. Foster is very good in her role, but it is Anthony Hopkins that literally lights up the screen with his complex portrayal of a complex serial killer. The psychological path of Hannibal is hard to trace. He is so odd a mixture of intelligence, cruelty, insanity, grace and charisma. In the depth, fledgling FBI trainee Clarice is no match of him. She is still naive yet very ambitious. On the trail of the serial killer Buffalo Bill, she's sent to interview him, a psychiatrist-turned-cannibal. Hannibal is willing to provide clues to finding the killer but only in return for personal information about Clarice herself. He calls it Quid Pro Quo. In those mind games, the two dance backward and forward between cannibal and FBI agent, mentor and student, psychiatrist and patient, father and daughter. It is Clarice who breathes life into the multidimensional sophisticated psychopath and Hannibal who nudges the aspiring student FBI agent and helps her achieve her first success in a world of Y chromosome where her guru Crawford uses her, embarrasses her, excludes her; Doctor Chilton regards her no more than a simple-minded woman and tries to flirt with her.Foster's performance is absolutely brilliant. While Anthony Hopkins receives most of the (well-deserved) praise for his chilling portrayal of incarcerated serial killer `Hannibal 'the Cannibal' Lector', it is Foster's performance that holds the movie together. The fear she shows just behind her eyes makes Clarice's outward courage all the more interesting and vulnerable. This is the perfect way to play the part because it explains Lector's interest in Clarice. Her only bargaining chip in getting Lector's help is to let him `feed' on her innermost secrets and fears in exchange for his brilliant insights into the psychotic mind. The title of the movie comes from these exchanges and is very poignant.

The rest of the cast is also quite good with Anthony Heald a standout as a unethical, petty doctor in charge of Hopkins. Of course the story of the other killer is very very chilling as well. A quality film in all aspects! It is a creepy and taken-by-storm experience with the film, background music is darker than the film itself and too ominous, plot is brilliantly constructed, conversations are thought-provocative, to crown the whole, Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkin are the cream. A fascinating display of direction is in a scene that shows an intense and grisly escape that Lector plotted by making a deal which was a transfer to another cell in exchange to provide Clarence more insight into a serial killer's profile. Jonathan Demme has done an amazing job at skilfully presenting here some edgy psychological material with depth that amplifies tension and maturity. The Silence of the Lambs is clearly a favourite as it ingeniously combines various facets of film-making to please mainstream and most art-house film lovers. Do not miss this movie. The movie is incredibly suspenseful and an absolute must see.

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Posted aug 23, 2008 6:59 pm pt

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ja ja ja ja ja, luv this moooovie, kool, never before seen!!!!!!!!

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Posted jan 6, 2008 9:00 pm pt

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Great movie! It really creeps you out from time to time. Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster are great!!

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Posted may 10, 2007 4:18 am pt

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Top notch movie. Heavy and dark throughout, and almost surrealistic at times. The cast was superb. Foster and Hopkins deserved their awards. Scott Glen, Anthony Heald, and Ted Levine were great in their supporting roles. This movie will certainly...
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Top notch movie. Heavy and dark throughout, and almost surrealistic at times. The cast was superb. Foster and Hopkins deserved their awards. Scott Glen, Anthony Heald, and Ted Levine were great in their supporting roles. This movie will certainly go down as a classic, and is one of my all time top favorite movies.
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Posted mar 27, 2007 12:07 pm pt

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Outstanding in every way. One of the best villains in movie history in Hannibal Lechter, played brilliantly by Anthony Hopkins. Best of the series by far.

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Posted mar 9, 2007 10:33 pm pt

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Every time I watch this movie, I am still freaked out by the story and the characters. Of course, this can only be attributable to the fact that "Silence of the Lambs" is absolutely fantastic. From Anthony Hopkins to Jodie Foster, each...
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Every time I watch this movie, I am still freaked out by the story and the characters. Of course, this can only be attributable to the fact that "Silence of the Lambs" is absolutely fantastic. From Anthony Hopkins to Jodie Foster, each actor in the film delivered a top notch performance in this true psychological thriller.

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Posted feb 26, 2007 2:25 am pt

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I liked it a lot! I wasn't blow away by it but still I enjoyed what I've watched. I'm not a big fan of this kind of movie since normally, you can figure out who is the bad guy only after 15 minutes, but I was impressed by the acting and the...
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I liked it a lot! I wasn't blow away by it but still I enjoyed what I've watched. I'm not a big fan of this kind of movie since normally, you can figure out who is the bad guy only after 15 minutes, but I was impressed by the acting and the quality of the script.

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Posted feb 11, 2007 5:17 am pt

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Anthony Hopkins is amazing in this role as the serial killer Hannibal Lechter. Absolutely chilling. Jodie Foster is great, as a hard nosed investigator, fresh out of the academy. Watching her face-off with the monster himself is the highlight of...
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Anthony Hopkins is amazing in this role as the serial killer Hannibal Lechter. Absolutely chilling. Jodie Foster is great, as a hard nosed investigator, fresh out of the academy. Watching her face-off with the monster himself is the highlight of the movie.

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Posted jan 24, 2007 3:26 am pt

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*shudder*

I was probably too young to watch this when I did, but if you want to talk about a thrilling but chilling movie...look no farther. Anthony Hopkins shines in this one--which is the best of the series, in my opinion. Don't...
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*shudder*

I was probably too young to watch this when I did, but if you want to talk about a thrilling but chilling movie...look no farther. Anthony Hopkins shines in this one--which is the best of the series, in my opinion. Don't miss it...but don't let your kids watch it either.

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Posted jan 24, 2007 2:33 am pt

• [+] Variety
  
  100
  A mesmerizing thriller that will grip audiences from first scene to last.

  by Staff [not credited] | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  100
  The interplay between Starling and Lector as they share an indefinable, dark understanding gives the film its unforgettable and unsettling power. [14 February 1991, Daily Notebook, p.E1]

  by Judy Stone | Read Full Review »
• [+] Rolling Stone
  
  100
  The superbly crafted suspense thriller…slams you like a sudden blast of bone-chilling, pulse-pounding terror.

  by Peter Travers | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  100
  A movie with this kind of haunting power comes along only once every decade or so. [20 February 1991, Life, p.11D]

  by Susan Wloszczyna | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  100
  Hopkins' insinuating performance puts him right up there with the screen's great bogymen. [13 February 1991, Calendar, p.F-1}

  by Sheila Benson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  100
  Delicious with foreboding, a masterly suspense thriller that toys with our anticipation like a well-fed cat.

  by Rita Kempley | Read Full Review »
• [+] Mr. Showbiz
  
  97
  Though the film's subject matter is grisly, the electricity between Foster and Hopkins during their prison tête-à-têtes could power every maximum-security prison in this country.

  by Jean Oppenheimer | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
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  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]

  by Vincent Canby | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
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  Hopkins plays the cannibalistic doctor with a quiet, controlled erudition, lacing his performance with moments of black humor. His Lecter is a sort of satanic Sherlock Holmes whose spasms of violence are all the more terrifying because they erupt from beneath such an intelligent and refined mask.

  by Staff [not credited] | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  90
  A smart, restrained entertainment, it doesn't splash around in blood and hysteria. It doesn't have to.

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  89
  At long, long last: the real thing.

  by Steve Davis | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  88
  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.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
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  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.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  70
  An accomplished, effective, grisly, and exceptionally sick slasher film that I can't with any conscience recommend, because the purposes to which it places its considerable ingenuity are ultimately rather foul.

  by Jonathan Rosenbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New Republic
  
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  Demme's pacing is tight throughout, marred only by some low-angle close-ups of the cannibal that are right out of old Vincent Price thrillers. [Feb 18, 1991]

  by Stanley Kauffmann | Read Full Review »