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100
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Los Angeles Times Sheila Benson
Hopkins' insinuating performance puts him right up there with the screen's great bogymen. [13 February 1991, Calendar, p.F-1}
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100
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
The superbly crafted suspense thriller...slams you like a sudden blast of bone-chilling, pulse-pounding terror.
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100
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San Francisco Chronicle
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]
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100
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USA Today Susan Wloszczyna
A movie with this kind of haunting power comes along only once every decade or so. [20 February 1991, Life, p.11D]
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100
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Washington Post Rita Kempley
Delicious with foreboding, a masterly suspense thriller that toys with our anticipation like a well-fed cat.
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97
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Mr. Showbiz
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.
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90
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The New York Times Vincent Canby
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]
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90
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Washington Post Desson Thomson
A smart, restrained entertainment, it doesn't splash around in blood and hysteria. It doesn't have to.
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88
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
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.
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88
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
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.
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