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American Psycho (2000) Rank 2 Reviews
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MovieJuice! (Mark Ramsey)
Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
Reel Talk (Betty Jo Tucker)
Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)
Brett Easton Ellis' controversial and violent novel American Psycho is about as black as comedy gets, and Harron captures the tone and themes perfectly here, highlighting the vacuousness of 80s consumerism without pulling any punches at all. It's a ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)
TV Guide's Movie Guide (Ken Fox)
It's not a great film, but let's face it: Considering the source, this is as good as it was ever going to get. ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (Ken Fox)
DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)
...a dark satire, a black comedy, and a slick slasher rolled into one. ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)
Reel.com (Tor Thorsen)
CineFile : il Cinema in Rete (Alberto Cassani)
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El Criticon (Antonio Méndez Casanova)
Xi-online (Paul Blank)
Wolf Entertainment Guide (William Wolf)
When I read "American Psycho" I saw it more as a satire on false values than as a vile, misogynous, violence-filled novel, but thought the valid subject needed brilliant writing by a Nabokov instead of the pedestrian writing by Bret Easton Ellis. He had ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Wolf Entertainment Guide (William Wolf)
Senses of Cinema (Boris Trbic)
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Film Written Magazine (Jaime N. Christley)
The antihero's lack of depth makes for a lack of surprise as the story unravels before us. ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Film Written Magazine (Jaime N. Christley)
Globe and Mail (Rick Groen)
A well-crafted yet essentially innocuous period piece. ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Globe and Mail (Rick Groen)
Dark Horizons (Garth Franklin)
Movieman's Guide to the Movies (Brian Oliver)
American Psycho, a film directed by Mary Harron stars Christian Bale ( Shaft , Batman Begins ) as Patrick Bateman, a complex man (to say the least) who is a mass murderer that lures people and then kills them. Willem Dafoe ( Clear and Present Danger , ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Movieman's Guide to the Movies (Brian Oliver)
The Movie Chicks
Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) is a successful young man who works on Wall Street. He seems to have everything going for him, except for the fact that he hates people, he is a psychopathic killer, and he can't stop himself, even when the police ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at The Movie Chicks
AboutFilm.com (Jeff Vorndam)
[ Postscript with Spoilers : There is a subplot in the film involving a private investigator played by Willem Dafoe who acts as sort of an interrogating conscience of Bateman's. Near the end of the film, it is suggested that all of Bateman's actions may ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at AboutFilm.com (Jeff Vorndam)
Dustin Putman
After several years of the film adaptation rights thrashing around from one studio and director to the next, "American Psycho" has finally surfaced on the big screen with, shock of all shocks, a female director, Mary Harron (1996's "I Shot Andy ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Dustin Putman
Lars Lindahl
Starring Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Justin Theroux, Reese Witherspoon, Chloe Sevigny, Cara Seymour, Guinevere Turner, William Sage, Matt Ross, and Samantha Mathis."What the hell?"That was the first question I asked myself after seeing ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Lars Lindahl
ShowBIZ Data
Reviewed at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival Not since Hitchcock's masterpiece "Psycho" 40 years ago (with the possible exception of Kubrik's "A Clockwork Orange" a decade later) has a horror-of-personality film been so anticipated by the media as ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at ShowBIZ Data
Detroit News (Susan Stark)
DigitalVD.de (Christian Schmidtchen)
Critic Doctor (Herb Kane)
I went to the movie "American Psycho" and had no idea what to expect. I left with high expectations that most critics would take an ax to this film and it's already chopped up plot. But, of course, that didn't happen. That's why I, the Critic Doctor, am ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Critic Doctor (Herb Kane)
eye WEEKLY (Jason Anderson)
As Bateman loses his tenuous grip on sanity, the filmmakers can't disguise the strain in Ellis' effort to make him an '80s Everyman who encapsulates every vile aspect of his culture. ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at eye WEEKLY (Jason Anderson)
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Cinematter (Matt Williams)
Marry Harron will direct this adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' novel about a wall street yuppie (Christian Bale) who moonlights as a serial killer. Jared Leto, Chloe Sevigny, Guinevere Turner, Reese Witherspoon, Samantha Mathis, Bill Sage, Willem Dafoe, ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Cinematter (Matt Williams)
Big Picture Big Sound (Joe Lozito)
In bringing Bret Easton Ellis' ultra-violent novel of mid-eighties power brokers to the screen, director Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol) has been asked to do the impossible: to film a novel known only for its extreme violence (let's face it, no one is ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Big Picture Big Sound (Joe Lozito)
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