Dahmer Reviews
eFilmCritic.com
Worth a look, if only for Renner's complex performance.
Full Review
| Original Score: 4/5
Cinema Sight
A chilling movie without oppressive gore.
| Original Score: 3.5/4
Cinerina
Renner?s face is chillingly unemotive, yet he communicates a great deal in his performance. See it for his performance if nothing else.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5
Nitrate Online
Director David Jacobson gives Dahmer a consideration that the murderer never game his victims.
Filmcritic.com
Renner carries much of the film with a creepy and dead-on performance.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Oregonian
Writer-director David Jacobson and his star, Jeremy Renner, have made a remarkable film that explores the monster's psychology not in order to excuse him but rather to demonstrate that his pathology evolved from human impulses that grew hideously twisted.
TheMovieChicks.com
It's shocking, intense, and totally creepy, yet compelling and sad. Jeremy Renner gives a career-making performance.
Full Review
| Original Score: 3.5/5
Film Freak Central
In Dahmer's pillow game the atrocity is all about existential tragedy.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2.5/4
Top CriticRenner's performance as Dahmer is unforgettable, deeply absorbing.
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| Original Score: B
One Guy's Opinion
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.
Full Review
| Original Score: B+
Austin Chronicle
Less the sensational true-crime hell-jaunt purists might like and more experimental in its storytelling (though no less horrifying for it).
Full Review
| Original Score: 3/5
Film Journal International
Baby-faced Renner is eerily convincing as this bland blank of a man with unimaginable demons within.
The movie should be credited with remembering his victims.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/4
Reel.com
The movie makes for watchable and interesting fare about the darkest side of human nature.
| Original Score: 3/4
It lets you brush up against the humanity of a psycho, without making him any less psycho.
Full Review
| Original Score: B+
