Bloody good fun: Red Dragon does the Hannibal Lecter canon proud. (The Critics Film).(Movie Review)

DR. HANNIBAL LECTER IS the premier Hollywood monster of our time--even scarier, in his way, than John Travolta. Fish-eyed and slightly phosphorescent, wearing an expression of icy beatitude, he hovers monklike behind his sheet of perforated plastic (which recalls the captivity of laboratory locusts), bodily contained but limitless as to his mind.

Nothing--no act or idea--is beyond him, and his dastardliness is without degree: Criminology stops short of Hannibal the Cannibal, analysis stammers its excuses and psychiatry just bounces off (under sodium pentothal he merely recites ...

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