Less the sensational true-crime hell-jaunt purists might like and more experimental in its storytelling (though no less horrifying for it).
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07/28/02
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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Reviews for Dahmer
It's difficult to feel anything much while watching this movie, beyond mild disturbance or detached pleasure at the acting.
07/11/02
Top CriticRenner?s face is chillingly unemotive, yet he communicates a great deal in his performance. See it for his performance if nothing else.
11/29/02
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
Chilling but uncommercial look into the mind of Jeffrey Dahmer, serial killer.
04/23/02
Renner's performance as Dahmer is unforgettable, deeply absorbing.
08/08/02
Worth a look, if only for Renner's complex performance.
08/11/03
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07/19/05
It lets you brush up against the humanity of a psycho, without making him any less psycho.
07/11/02
Top CriticIn Dahmer's pillow game the atrocity is all about existential tragedy.
08/08/02
Baby-faced Renner is eerily convincing as this bland blank of a man with unimaginable demons within.
07/27/02
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12/08/02
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12/06/05
Renner carries much of the film with a creepy and dead-on performance.
11/17/02
Ambitious, unsettling psychodrama that takes full, chilling advantage of its rough-around-the-edges, low-budget constraints.
06/24/02
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08/24/02
Renner ... is extraordinary.
07/10/02
A story which fails to rise above its disgusting source material.
01/22/03
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
Suffers from a lack of clarity and audacity that a subject as monstrous and pathetic as Dahmer demands.
06/21/02
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