American Psycho Reviews
The slick satire cleverly equates materialism, narcissism, misogyny, and classism with homicide, but you may laugh so loud at the protagonist that you won't be able to hear yourself laughing with him.
American Psycho is nearly perfect for what it is, but before we go on, we should ask what that actually amounts to. Can something with so rigid a thesis be a real work of art?
It needs to be seen and appreciated, like a serpent in a glass cage.
EmanuelLevy.Com
The movie is elegantly shot, but based on what's on screen, it's hard to tell what motivated Mary Harron to direct this emotionally vapid feature
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| Original Score: C+
Suite101.com
Mary Harron asks what's more unnerving - exaggerated, imagined violence or vacuous realities some wish to be real, psychosis as much in the construct as the character. Thus, "Psycho's" savagery goes beyond a simple screed against 1980s excess and greed.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Old School Reviews
much like the 80's era that it personifies
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| Original Score: B
Sacramento News & Review
Harron' s incisive eye and Bale' s bravura performance carry the day.
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| Original Score: 3/5
BDK Reviews
American Pyscho is one of those films that makes you laugh uncomfortably throughout and you just walk away feeling disgusted. The flick is definitely an underrated masterpiece.
| Original Score: 4.5/5
Harron's Psycho reps an impressive reclaiming of dubious material.
eFilmCritic.com
One can picture Kubrick handling this material with a similar elegant malevolence.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Combustible Celluloid
It's a highly entertaining movie with enough edgy humor to prickle our senses.
Time Out
Top CriticThe film makes wonderfully unsettling entertainment; crucially -- and gloriously -- Bale nails Bateman with a sublimely dead-eyed and deadpan performance.
Horror.com
Mary Harron and Christian Bale create an almost magical balance between the tragic and comic elements of this story.
Reeling Reviews
Production designer Gideon Ponte gives a terrific look to the film, with a hard, ultramodern design that lends sterility to Patrick's personal killing field.
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| Original Score: B+
Nick's Flick Picks
American Psycho connects strongly in the moment, and has proven memorable over time, for the vivid impressions it makes in tone as well as look, its potent blends of sound and image, its unusual if erratic points of entry into potentially stock cha
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| Original Score: B
Film Threat
It's smart, frightening and funny.
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| Original Score: 4/5
L.A. Weekly
At once a sharp satire and an earnest study in the deadly consequences of moral vacancy.
San Diego Metropolitan
This film isn't for everyone. But those who can stomach it will find it a chilling glimpse into a serious psychological disorder.
