The Silence of the Lambs Critic Reviews
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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]Read the full review
Delicious with foreboding, a masterly suspense thriller that toys with our anticipation like a well-fed cat.Read the full review
The superbly crafted suspense thriller…slams you like a sudden blast of bone-chilling, pulse-pounding terror.Read the full review
Hopkins' insinuating performance puts him right up there with the screen's great bogymen. [13 February 1991, Calendar, p.F-1}Read the full review
A movie with this kind of haunting power comes along only once every decade or so. [20 February 1991, Life, p.11D]Read the full review
A mesmerizing thriller that will grip audiences from first scene to last.Read the full review
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 the full review
A smart, restrained entertainment, it doesn't splash around in blood and hysteria. It doesn't have to.Read the full review
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 the full review
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 the full review
