Broomfield, who keeps himself in the frame as he investigates, tells the story with the panache of a pulp true-crime author.
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Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003)
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Reviews Counted:57
Fresh:49
Rotten:8
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: This chilling, unsettling documentary provides an eye-opening look at both Wuornos and the American justice system.
Theatrical Release:Jan 9, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: Sensationalist director Nick Broomfield delivers his most personal film with this bracing, powerful sequel to 1992's AILEEN WUORNOS: THE SELLING OF A SERIAL KILLER. Ten years after making that... [More]
Starring: Aileen Wuornos, Nick Broomfield
Director: Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill
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Reviews for Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer
A valuable and insightful contribution to the mountain of Aileen Wuornos speculation and documentation.
02/08/04
It makes for a tabloid account, albeit a deliciously droll sidebar to The Selling Of A Serial Killer.
11/18/03
The film stands quite chillingly as a final statement from a woman trying to fight her own commodification.
05/21/04
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05/22/04
[Broomfield] makes an entertaining and at times even compelling argument, whatever his topic.
01/09/04
No one should have to endure the life that Aileen Wuornos led, and we leave the movie believing that if someone, somehow, had been able to help that little girl, her seven victims would never have died.
01/30/04
Top CriticThough one can question the movie's quality as a documentary ... Aileen raises such troubling issues that it stays, hellishly, in your mind.
01/29/04
Top CriticAs gripping and suspenseful as anything Hollywood is capable of turning out.
01/08/04
Além de investigar com maior profundidade as origens da violência de Aileen, o documentário ainda comprova a perfeição da performance de Charlize Theron em Monster.
01/31/05
Broomfield is too fond of himself by half, and tilts the movie too much toward his personal objections to the death penalty.
02/13/04
Does afford a real-life view of Wuornos during the days of her final appeal and her ultimate date with death.
02/13/04
Top CriticThe filmmaker misses too many opportunities by focusing too much on himself.
04/02/04
Broomfield's voiceover commentary sounds like a bad Robin Leach impression at times, but his fascinating interviews with the real Wuornos elicit sympathy as well as a strong case of the heebie-jeebies.
01/09/04
[T]his movie literally gave me the chills.
02/13/04
Top CriticJust as Broomfield's latest points a harsh light on those who profited from her death, so too does he stray into their territory, giving a broken woman one final humiliation.
03/04/04
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12/30/06
Marked by Broomfield's same stentorian, recurrently officious narration... but still a sharp, affecting portrait of monstrous underclass miasma.
01/12/04
It's a far more gripping documentary than Broomfield's 1992 Wuornos film.
01/14/04
Top CriticA fascinating portrait of the woman, and a damning one of the society in which she lived.
10/01/03
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