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The Silence of the Lambs 30th Anniversary presented by TCM

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Synopsis

A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.

Cast

  • Jodie Foster
  • Anthony Hopkins
  • Scott Glenn
  • Ted Levine
  • Anthony Heald
  • Brooke Smith
  • Diane Baker
  • Kasi Lemmons
  • Charles Napier
  • Roger Corman

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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.

Metacritic review by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
100

FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster), brainiac cannibal Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) and tackle-tucking serial killer Jame Gumb (Ted Levine) make for one of cinema’s great ménages à trois.

Metacritic review by Jamie Graham
Jamie Graham
Total Film
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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.

Metacritic review by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times