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Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003)
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:17
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.2/10
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
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Top CriticThe film stands quite chillingly as a final statement from a woman trying to fight her own commodification.
05/21/04
Top Critic[T]his movie literally gave me the chills.
02/13/04
Top CriticEngrossing, educational, amusing and disturbing.
02/13/04
Top CriticProvides an opportunity to study one of history's supposed anomalies: a female serial killer.
02/13/04
Top CriticDoes afford a real-life view of Wuornos during the days of her final appeal and her ultimate date with death.
02/13/04
Top CriticBroomfield is too fond of himself by half, and tilts the movie too much toward his personal objections to the death penalty.
02/13/04
Top CriticHer intense denial is fascinating, and extremely sad, to watch.
01/30/04
Top CriticNo 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 CriticDigs into the soul of this abused child, who never got the treatment she needed. Her eyes, radiating madness, will haunt your dreams.
01/29/04
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 CriticIt's a far more gripping documentary than Broomfield's 1992 Wuornos film.
01/14/04
Top CriticEven if she skirts the big questions, Wuornos is a riveting presence -- affable and articulate one minute, twitchy and petulant the next.
01/12/04
Top CriticThe filmmaker's ego and ethics aside, there's no denying the power of Wuornos' behavior here.
01/09/04
Top CriticThe director ... makes a compelling argument that Wuornos never got a fair deal from the legal system and that she should have been spared death because of insanity.
01/09/04
Top CriticNick Broomfield's documentary, which chronicles the events that led up to the execution of Aileen Wuornos, is an absorbing film, partly because its subject exudes a scary charisma.
01/08/04
Top CriticShe was guilty, no doubt, but as this immensely moving film makes clear, Aileen Wuornos was also heartbreakingly human.
01/08/04
Top CriticMight have been a good film, except that Broomfield had the inside track. His films are, ultimately, always about the making of his films.
01/08/04
Top CriticA profoundly disturbing film.
11/07/03
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