“Essential Work”: Rated 4.4 out of 5, this is Anthony Hopkins’ best film

Who will really be surprised by this result? Because it is not for nothing that this movie immediately comes to mind when we mention the name of Anthony Hopkins. With the same average, The Elephant Man could have beaten it, but the number of voters (71,667 to David Lynch’s 28,082) tipped the scales…in favor of Silence of the Lambs. Obviously.

One of the rare films to successfully complete the Oscars’ Big Five, winning all five major awards: Picture, Director (Jonathan Demm), Adapted Screenplay (Ted Talley based on Thomas Harris), Actor (Jodie Foster) and Actress. Anthony Hopkins is just as terrifying as Hannibal Lecter (despite having his screen time cut to about fifteen minutes) when it hits theaters on February 21st.

Like Seven a few years later (with five less Oscars for David Fincher, i.e. zero), The Silence of the Lambs revolutionized the thriller, the serial killer variant, and remains the genre to this day. It’s enough to immediately think when we see Jodie Foster’s role in the police, for example in the 4th season of True Detective.

Out of 1115 reviews posted online for AlloCiné, 600 give it a maximum rating of 5 out of 5. Which is more than half (about 54%, if we want to be precise when it comes to numbers), and the flow of extras vs. feature film.

“Jonathan Demmy turns Silence of the Lambs into a cult film”That’s what he said Gimzi. “With an intelligent screenplay and a captivating story, this film is a great detective thriller that you should not miss under any circumstances. A true masterpiece.” that Kiwi98 This is how he expresses himself: “The Silence of the Lambs is a breathtaking film, an absolute and definitive thriller.”

Simply the best psychological thriller of all time with Psycho

“Anthony Hawkins has never found his place so well, his charisma is perfectly suited to this fascinating character that is Hannibal Lecter, he portrays his character with a perfection that has hardly been seen before and his partner Jodie Foster is also masterful in addition to the direction of Jonathan Demme. He mastered it to the millimeter.”

for that GyzmoCAThis is “An excellent thriller with Anthony Hopkins at the top of his game and terrifying as a cannibalistic psychopath. The psychology of the characters is gripping. We’re scared, we’re excited.” “Finally, we come back like lambs in a movie: silent, speechless, and it won’t be because we’ve had butterflies in our throats, but because we’ve just witnessed great cinema.”lights up his side Vivien-BWith a nice reference to the plot.

Anthony Hopkins has never found his place so well, his charisma is perfectly suited to this fascinating character, Hannibal Lecter.

CarpeDyem Seen in the silence of the lambs “Simply the best psychological thriller of all time Psychosis“but HawkMan placing it next to the other classics already mentioned above: “In serial killer movies, if you have to see 2 in your life, it’s ‘Silence of the Lambs’ with Seven.”

Which sums it up nicely for a film that oscillates between a classic and a masterpiece in the minds of internet users, but which, three decades after its release, seems to have lost none of its power to charm and haunt. And if you haven’t seen it yet, you know what to do. At the risk of not being able to see Anton Hopkins without shivering.