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Actor: Anthony Hopkins

Anthony Hopkins is on screen for about sixteen minutes in The Silence of the Lambs and won Best Actor for it, which is among the shortest winning performances ever. The technique is refusal. He does not blink for long stretches and does not move, so the audience does the work.

He trained in Welsh and British theatre, understudied Olivier, and brought a technical precision that he has described in interviews as being mostly about learning the lines completely so nothing else requires attention.

The Remains of the Day is the better performance, a butler who has suppressed himself so thoroughly that the tragedy is invisible to him.

He won a second Best Actor for The Father at eighty-three, becoming the oldest winner, in a film that puts the audience inside dementia instead of observing it.

A woman in armor stands against a desert landscape with a spaceship hovering overhead.Anthony Hopkins

Rebel Moon (2023) Review

Rebel Moon (2023) rates 1 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Zack Snyder pitched this to Lucasfilm as a Star Wars film, was refused, and made it anyway with the names changed. It is Seven Samurai with the recruitment…

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Colin Farrell as Alexander the Great in battle armor, likely from a scene in Oliver Stone's 2004 film.Angelina Jolie

Alexander (2004) Review

Alexander (2004) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Oliver Stone spent a hundred and fifty-five million dollars on a life that has no shape, released it, and then recut it three separate times across ten years trying…

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The Silence of the Lambs (1991) film posterAnthony Heald

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

An FBI trainee consults imprisoned cannibal Hannibal Lecter to catch a serial killer skinning his victims. The Silence of the Lambs is Jonathan Demme's 1991 American psychological-thriller film adapted from Thomas Harris's 1988 novel, depicting an FBI trainee who consults…

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Thor (2011) film posterAnthony Hopkins

Thor (2011) Review

The MCU mythological foundation. The 8 reflects honest evaluation of the film that gave the MCU its mythological foundation and the entry that Kenneth Branagh directed with sustained Shakespearean theatrical attention.

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Thor: Ragnarok (2017) film posterAnthony Hopkins

Thor: Ragnarok (2017) Review

Taika Waititi's tonal pivot that broke the Thor character and signaled the MCU's slide into decorative comedy. The 6 reflects honest evaluation of a film that is funny in its individual moments but represents a structural betrayal of the Thor…

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