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My Friend Dahmer opens a window into the making of a serial killer whose conclusions are as empathetic as they are deeply troubling.
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Although My Friend Dahmer does not resolve the impossible question of 'nature vs nurture', it approaches it with a humanity that is too often missing from such stories. Jul 3, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Although My Friend Dahmer does not resolve the impossible question of 'nature vs nurture', it approaches it with a humanity that is too often missing from such stories.
Elena Lazic
Isn't there something pathological about the way we privilege the pathological? If you can stomach the focus of My Friend Dahmer, you'll find this rewarding. Jun 9, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Isn't there something pathological about the way we privilege the pathological? If you can stomach the focus of My Friend Dahmer, you'll find this rewarding.
Charlotte O'Sullivan
There's a hint of retrospective guilt here and you could question Backderf's morals, and by extension those of Meyers, for profiting from telling a murderer's origin story. Jun 1, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
There's a hint of retrospective guilt here and you could question Backderf's morals, and by extension those of Meyers, for profiting from telling a murderer's origin story.
Ed Potton
Ross Lynch is eerily good as Dahmer, like a very young Philip Seymour Hoffman - stolidly silent, heavy-footed, incubating his resentments. May 31, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Ross Lynch is eerily good as Dahmer, like a very young Philip Seymour Hoffman - stolidly silent, heavy-footed, incubating his resentments.
Peter Bradshaw
Meyers makes "My Friend Dahmer" a convincing high school drama, but his portrait of the serial killer as a young man telegraphs Dahmer's future all too clearly. Nov 16, 2017 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Meyers makes "My Friend Dahmer" a convincing high school drama, but his portrait of the serial killer as a young man telegraphs Dahmer's future all too clearly.
Pat Padua
My Friend Dahmer is at its most provocative when it considers this dynamic between the exploiters and the exploited. In making Dahmer feel like a freak, did the boys push him over the edge into a murderous contempt for all people? Nov 16, 2017 | Full Review…
My Friend Dahmer is at its most provocative when it considers this dynamic between the exploiters and the exploited. In making Dahmer feel like a freak, did the boys push him over the edge into a murderous contempt for all people?
Ben Sachs
Emphasizes a very human sense of loneliness in Jeff, but it doesn't explore the sadistic element of domination with which his desire for companionship was entwined. Jul 20, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Emphasizes a very human sense of loneliness in Jeff, but it doesn't explore the sadistic element of domination with which his desire for companionship was entwined.
Josh Goller
Marc Meyers does a fantastic job directing Backderf's intimate account of Jeffery Dahmer early years. His film can be viewed as both a sympathetic look at a troubled youth or a documentation of a prolific murderer... May 16, 2019 | Full Review…
Marc Meyers does a fantastic job directing Backderf's intimate account of Jeffery Dahmer early years. His film can be viewed as both a sympathetic look at a troubled youth or a documentation of a prolific murderer...
Carolyn Mauricette
My Friend Dahmer presents not only an examination of Dahmer himself, it gets into the ethics of Backderf's friendship with the soon-to-be cannibal murderer. May 1, 2019 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
My Friend Dahmer presents not only an examination of Dahmer himself, it gets into the ethics of Backderf's friendship with the soon-to-be cannibal murderer.
C.H. Newell
We eagerly disappear inside a perfectly decorated 1970's living room in order to catch a glimpse of this slow moving train as it inevitably derails. Apr 9, 2019 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
We eagerly disappear inside a perfectly decorated 1970's living room in order to catch a glimpse of this slow moving train as it inevitably derails.
Kimberley Elizabeth
A complex and absorbing portrait of a teenager just about to take the leap into infamy. Feb 12, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A complex and absorbing portrait of a teenager just about to take the leap into infamy.
Louise Burrell
It is only our foreknowledge of what Jeffrey will become that allows us to register all the early warning signs, right down to Joyce's edict.., heavily ironised for the viewer by the weight of future history: "New house rule: we eat our mistakes." Feb 4, 2019 | Full Review…
It is only our foreknowledge of what Jeffrey will become that allows us to register all the early warning signs, right down to Joyce's edict.., heavily ironised for the viewer by the weight of future history: "New house rule: we eat our mistakes."
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