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Red Dragon 2002
Anthony Hopkins, Ed Norton, Ralph Fiennes, and PHILLIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN all acting their butts off in what is, at the end of the day, a basically-silly procedural is insane. It’s like getting Peter Gabriel to start a Hannah Montana cover band with Paul McCartney and Joni Mitchell. And they only play like one bat mitzvah.
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Hannibal 2001
In very Ridley Scott fashion, this feels almost like three different films in quick succession — the first one bearing the most similarity to Silence, the last one not really at all. Scott’s sense of decency and his gross, mean sense of humour (especially when expressed through violence) smoosh together to make something fun, if juvenile. The delicate tenderness of the first film is nowhere to be found. But Oldman is a joy the whole way through and the Italian…
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