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Movie Overview
Cast
Jodie Foster
Anthony Hopkins
Scott Glenn
Director
Jonathan Demme
MPAA Rating
R
Silence of the Lambs (1991)
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A+
"No common follow-the-clues, get-the-bad-guy movie"
AboutFilm.com
Carlo Cavagna
4.5/5
"Give the Lambs their due."
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
4.5/5
"Is it a modern masterpiece? Did it deserve to sweep the four big Academy Awards? Is it one of the best thrillers ever made? A definitive maybe to all three questions."
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
B-
"The over-the-top story reeks of phoniness, grisly violence and exploitation."
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
9/10
"[A] powerful, thought-provoking and surprisingly well-made film."
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Dragan Antulov
"A terrifying psychological drama about a brave modern day woman warrior."
Spirituality and Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
3.5/4
"There is little doubt that the most memorable aspect of
The Silence of the Lambs
is Anthony Hopkins' incomparable performance as Lecter."
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
4/4
"All of its most enduring aesthetic qualities and themes%u2014essentially what sets it apart from so many imitators and established it almost immediately as a canonical film%u2014are contained in its riveting first 20 minutes, which draw you in like a stee"
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
8/10
"The film comes through with flying colors."
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
JoBlo
9/10
"...gripping action, psychological thrills, and dramatic horror...a first-rate suspense chiller."
DVDTown.com
John J. Puccio
4/4
"Director Jonathan Demme keeps the film intense and haunting, and Jodie Foster compelling to watch."
Montreal Film Journal
Kevin N. Laforest
high +2 out of -4..+4
"This is one heavy thriller."
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Mark R. Leeper
9/10
"
The Silence of the Lambs
is a psychological thriller of the highest order, and well deserving of the unusual Oscar nod for Best Picture, never before bestowed upon a film like this."
Flick Filosopher
MaryAnn Johanson
5/5
"Demme has the control of a born master of suspense."
eFilmCritic.com
Rob Gonsalves
10/10
"It has maintained its reputation as a chilling drama after all these years..."
Screen It!
Rory L. Aronsky
5/5
"Not since
The Exorcist
had a horror flick been this applauded! It was almost as if ... "horror" were its own legitimate genre!"
FEARnet
Scott Weinberg
4/4
"the best serial-killer movie, ever!"
sbs.is
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
A-
"Lecter fascinates us because he embodies qualities that we associate with civilized, reasonable existence, yet he is murderously sociopathic."
Decent Films Guide
Steven D. Greydanus
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