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| | Hannibal |
 | | John Mathieson's strongly lit, wide-canvas cinematography is exquisitely beautiful; gorgeous food, music, architecture, and painting are regularly trotted out for our viewing pleasure; and the gritty, fearless Julianne Moore, replacing Jodie Foster as a sterner, angrier, more disappointed Clarice Starling, is both a beautiful bit of recasting and a beautiful vision unto herself. |
 | | Starling, once so resolute a protector, is now unsure what exactly she owes to the institution trying to capture and perhaps assassinate Hannibal. |
 | | She is further unsettled, as we are, by odd intimations that Hannibal is in love with her, or at least has some secret, hard-to-deduce designs on her that may involve more than her mind. |
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