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If it falls short of the deadly satire of Bret Easton Ellis's novel, American Psycho still finds its own blend of horror and humor, thanks in part to a fittingly creepy performance by Christian Bale.
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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. March 28, 2011 | Full Review…
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.
Lisa Alspector
It's hard to summon up enthusiasm for a performance so rooted in bloody banality. I mean, as Patrick, Bale's most emotionally pressing dilemma is: Chainsaw or butcher knife? March 28, 2011 | Full Review…
It's hard to summon up enthusiasm for a performance so rooted in bloody banality. I mean, as Patrick, Bale's most emotionally pressing dilemma is: Chainsaw or butcher knife?
Desson Thomson
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? March 28, 2011 | Full Review…
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?
David Edelstein
It needs to be seen and appreciated, like a serpent in a glass cage. March 28, 2011 | Full Review…
It needs to be seen and appreciated, like a serpent in a glass cage.
Richard Corliss
Harron's Psycho reps an impressive reclaiming of dubious material. May 30, 2008
Harron's Psycho reps an impressive reclaiming of dubious material.
Dennis Harvey
Conceptually, this savage cartoon ends up as trapped in surfaces as its shallow antihero: it's all dressed up with nowhere to go. March 31, 2008 | Full Review…
Conceptually, this savage cartoon ends up as trapped in surfaces as its shallow antihero: it's all dressed up with nowhere to go.
David Ansen
Graced with a smart, pathos-laden meditation on male competition and the blood-drawing ferocity of a money-centered culture, along with screenwriter Guinevere Turner, Harron does a transformative voodoo on an often repugnant source. February 4, 2020 | Full Review…
Graced with a smart, pathos-laden meditation on male competition and the blood-drawing ferocity of a money-centered culture, along with screenwriter Guinevere Turner, Harron does a transformative voodoo on an often repugnant source.
Felicia Feaster
American Psycho is one of the greatest horror films of all time; with its disturbingly dark comedy, psychotic breakdowns of society and an unnerving look at the obsessive thoughts of a serial killer. October 27, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
American Psycho is one of the greatest horror films of all time; with its disturbingly dark comedy, psychotic breakdowns of society and an unnerving look at the obsessive thoughts of a serial killer.
Zoe Rose Smith
As far as revelations go, the final twist in American Psycho is more bewildering than earth-shattering, but that's what makes it great. June 20, 2019 | Full Review…
As far as revelations go, the final twist in American Psycho is more bewildering than earth-shattering, but that's what makes it great.
C.J. Prince
I've always found Mary Harron's vision of Bret Easton Ellis's arch satire of '80s greed, excess, and grooming to be a lot funnier than its reputation. October 24, 2018 | Full Review…
I've always found Mary Harron's vision of Bret Easton Ellis's arch satire of '80s greed, excess, and grooming to be a lot funnier than its reputation.
Sean Fennessey
When you're a white, rich man in American, you can get away with anything. Murder and rape? Go ahead! Commit at will because the world is your oyster. October 24, 2018 | Full Review…
When you're a white, rich man in American, you can get away with anything. Murder and rape? Go ahead! Commit at will because the world is your oyster.
Lindsay Pugh
Like all great films, "American Psycho" is one you can discover something new in regardless of how many times you've seen it. July 31, 2017 | Rating: A+ | Full Review…
Like all great films, "American Psycho" is one you can discover something new in regardless of how many times you've seen it.
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