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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 90
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    Audiences will be excused for any feelings of déjà vu the new film might inspire. That won't prevent them from watching it in rapt, anxious silence, however, as the gruesome crimes, twisted psychology and deterministic dread that lie at the heart of Harris' work are laid out with care and skill. Read full review

  • 88
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    To my surprise, Ratner does a sure, stylish job, appreciating the droll humor of Lecter's predicament, creating a depraved new villain in the Tooth Fairy (Ralph Fiennes), and using the quiet, intense skills of Norton to create a character whose old fears feed into his new ones. There is also humor, of the uneasy he-can't-get-away-with-this variety, in the character of a nosy scandal-sheet reporter (Philip Seymour Hoffman). Read full review

  • 75
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    As Hopkins's Lecter is concerned, it's official: He's Freddy Krueger. Read full review

  • 67
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    A thriller made from a completist's checklist rather than with a cultist's passion. Read full review

  • 60
    Washington Post |

    Red Dragon is merely the distant echoes of what we liked about "Lambs." Read full review

  • 60
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    The entire picture is a third-generation Xerox copy, in part because adapting Mr. Harris's books for the screen seems to turn directors into rigid formalists. Read full review

  • 60
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    There's no freshness here, no sense of newness or discovery. In its place, there's an earnest desire not to drop the ball, a determination to risk as little as possible in keeping this golden egg from cracking wide open. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Edward Guthmann

    In Hollywood, where integrity is rapidly consumed and careers defined by market value, there's trash and there's trash with a pedigree. Read full review

  • 50
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Suffers from franchise fatigue. Its rote suspense is strictly a business proposition. Read full review

  • 40
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    I say don't bite unless your taste runs to thin gruel, and grueling gruel at that. Read full review

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