FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecktor, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecktor to capture a new killer.
An unpleasantly gripping thriller that rubs one's nose in a sick criminal mentality for two hours.
– Michael Speier,
Variety,
13 Feb 2001
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The movie drives along with such intensity for much of the time that you can just let it work on your senses without worrying about whether it makes sense.
– Walter Goodman,
New York Times,
30 Aug 2004
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One of the most impressive American thrillers of the late '80s.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
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I'm intrigued by that stylistic envelope: simultaneously hypnotic and enervating, meditative and empty.
– Pat Graham,
Chicago Reader,
7 Feb 2007
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Manhunter ushered in the age of empathy for the devil.