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The Silence of the Lambs (1991): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

8.6IMDb
95%Tomatometer
86Metacritic
8.3TMDB

The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 crime, thriller, drama film directed by Jonathan Demme. It scores 8.6 on IMDb, 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, 86 on Metacritic, 8.3 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 1 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 1 of 54 films from 1991 in our catalog and number 4 of 1,701 thriller films.

Billed cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Anthony Heald, Brooke Smith.

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