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08/24/02
Dahmer (2002)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:27
Rotten:12
Average Rating:6.5/10
Theatrical Release:Jun 21, 2002 Limited
Synopsis: One of the most notorious serial killers in America was Wisconsin's Jeffrey Dahmer. Dahmer's exploits included killing 15 boys and resorting to cannibalism on their corpses. This biographical drama... [More]
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Bruce Davison, Artel Kayaru, Dion Basco
Director: David Jacobson
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12/06/05
While Jacobson doesn't excuse Dahmer's horrific actions ... he always goes for empathy with the character, and sometimes comes unforgivably close to presenting Dahmer as a kind of gay transgressive icon.
06/21/02
The film is also sexy in parts. Just don't tell anyone you respect you're turned on.
05/23/02
The movie should be credited with remembering his victims.
07/12/02
Top CriticIt's shocking, intense, and totally creepy, yet compelling and sad. Jeremy Renner gives a career-making performance.
08/11/02
Renner carries much of the film with a creepy and dead-on performance.
11/17/02
Renner ... is extraordinary.
07/10/02
Director David Jacobson gives Dahmer a consideration that the murderer never game his victims.
11/29/02
Baby-faced Renner is eerily convincing as this bland blank of a man with unimaginable demons within.
07/27/02
It's not that "Dahmer" was a bad film, which it certainly wasn't, but it was a pointless one that was more unsettling than informative or penetrating.
09/09/02
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07/19/05
A subtly creepy, gently disturbing portrait of a genuinely disturbed man...The point of the exercise might not be apparent, but its artistry certainly is.
08/05/02
Chilling but uncommercial look into the mind of Jeffrey Dahmer, serial killer.
04/23/02
This film was made by and for those folks who collect the serial killer cards and are fascinated by the mere suggestion of serial killers. For the rest of us, sitting through Dahmer's two hours amounts to little more than punishment.
07/12/02
Since Dahmer resorts to standard slasher flick thrills when it should be most in the mind of the killer, it misses a major opportunity to be truly revelatory about his psyche.
10/18/02
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