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Susan Stark, Detroit News: It fails to create the deeply threatening vacuum that is the original's claim to enduring fame and resonance. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Not 'as good' as its predecessor. But the general public will find it more entertaining. Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: Silly though handsomely staged. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Bears many of the wounds of the book's confusion. Read more
Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Anthony Hopkins returns in silken, menacing form in the role that earned him an Oscar. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: A disappointment. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Unsatisfying. Read more
Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: If it hadn't been the sequel to one of the best films of its kind, Hannibal probably wouldn't rate a blue-plate special for America's cinematic appetite. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: Too half-baked for even a guy like Lecter to swallow. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Ridley Scott ... casts a grisly fairy tale spell. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Hannibal definitely grabs at the emotions, but not the one it's after. You come in hoping to have the wits scared out of you and leave with your temper barely in check. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Hannibal Lecter is the ostensible cannibal of this franchise, but the real cannibals are his creators. I wouldn't be surprised if the next time, they have him endorsing his favorite Chianti. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Hannibal isn't a terrible movie, but it is a disappointment, and more than a small step down from the level of its predecessor. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The underlying story lacks the fascination of Silence of the Lambs. Read more
Charles Taylor, Salon.com: Very likely the worst film of this year and quite possibly the next. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: There are disgusting movies that are worth seeing -- Silence of the Lambs, for one -- and others that are merely disgusting. Then there's Hannibal, which exists in its own category. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: Corrosive and haunting. Read more
Geoff Andrew, Time Out: The weight-watchers script sensibly dispenses with several characters to serve a brew that's enjoyably spicy but low on substance. Read more
Mike Clark, USA Today: Hannibal won't even be a footnote when the year's best movies are grabbing the ink in December. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: Ultimately more shallow and crass at its heart than its predecessor, Hannibal is nevertheless tantalizing, engrossing and occasionally startling. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Not nearly as sardonic as it means to be, Hannibal seems inanely pleased with itself. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Hopkins, who is electrifying in almost anything he does, reprises the mastery he brought to Silence of the Lambs. Even in a movie as patchworky as this, he's always compelling. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: It is not bad on its own terms, and it is certainly engrossing, but it comes nowhere near the power and sordid glory of the original. Read more