A serial killer skins his victims alive. So FBI agent Jodie Foster, looking for a clue to the so-called Buffalo Bill murders, approaches America's most feared prisoner, psychiatrist-turned-mass murderer Hannibal the Cannibal. Anthony Hopkins makes Hannibal at once a frightening and almost sympathetic character and director Jonathan Demme keeps the tension tight as the film moves to its terrifying confrontation climax. Hopkins and Foster deserved their Oscars.

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