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American Psycho (2000) Rank 4 Reviews
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JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
Sick. Funny. Horrific. Charming. Unsettling. A delight. A film that can have you laughing out loud one minute, and freezing up horribly the next. A definite original, one that should have people talking for some time to come, and most definitely not for ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
Arrow in the Head ("The Arrow")
The King's Room (Paul Perkins)
American Psycho Reviewed By Paul Perkins
In American we seen some crazy serial killers like Jeffery
Dahmer, Ted Bundy and if this film was real you can add Patrick Bateman to the
list he is a true Psycho as the film start drop of blood are seen. ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at The King's Room (Paul Perkins)
Bloody-Distgusting
To make this short and sweet 'American Psycho' is great story filled with fabulous diologue, superb acting, disturbing scenerios and it's also great fun!!! See this movie at all costs. ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Bloody-Distgusting
Film Gazette (Veronica Mixon)
An astonishing achievement! ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Film Gazette (Veronica Mixon)
John Beachem
It's the mid 1980's and the yuppie era is in full swing. Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) is one of these yuppies who spends his time worrying about whether he'll get a good table at the best restaurant and how expensive his apartment is compared to his ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at John Beachem
Flipside Movie Emporium (Michael Scrutchin)
Driving this ride through manic delirium is a soundtrack of '80s pop hits that gives American Psycho a thrilling upbeat rhythm. Director Mary Harron keeps this witty satire briskly paced and stylish, while Christian Bale delivers a wonderful ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Flipside Movie Emporium (Michael Scrutchin)
New York Times (Stephen Holden)
At the heart of the film is a star-making performance by the handsome Welsh actor Christian Bale. ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at New York Times (Stephen Holden)
ToxicUniverse.com (Mike Bracken)
Ultimately, American Psycho is a very pleasant surprise—a film adaptation of a book I love that manages to ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at ToxicUniverse.com (Mike Bracken)
Buzz (Tanya Marsh)
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One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)
Bale is outstanding as Bateman, playing the role to its sexist, narcissistic hilt. His rhapsodizing over '80s pop stars like Phil Collins and Whitney Houston, which he often does just prior to killing people, is audaciously funny, the kind of funny ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)
watchingmovies.com (Rob McKinnon)
Moviereviews.org (Mac VerStandig)
Rarely has a film so funny, chilling and revealing as American Psycho graced the silver screen. ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Moviereviews.org (Mac VerStandig)
Movieman's Guide to the Movies (Brian Oliver)
Daily-Reviews.com (Brian Matherly)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
In the recent tradition of movies like Fight Club and The Sixth Sense, American Psycho employs a surprise ending. There is enough ambiguity about the last ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Bob Bloom
But I was pleasantly surprised, no, make that impressed, with Mary Harron's adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' notorious novel.A bravura performance by Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman, a wealthy Manhattan stock broker who murders people, is the key to ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Bob Bloom
Scott Renshaw
Maybe Ellis didn't "get it" when it came to offering an icycold attack on the gogo ethos. Mary Harron, however, does. Harron's telling of the tale mixes 1980s nostalgia with pitchblack humor, anchored by Christian Bale's riveting performance. Bale stars ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Scott Renshaw
SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
Bret Easton Ellis's novel American Psycho (1991) was an enormously controversial work when
it came out. It attracted attention after feminist groups obtained
gallery proofs and protested its violence against women, forcing its ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
Patrick Bateman's shiny meat cleavers aren't the only things that cut deep in the murderous new filmAmerican Psycho. So does the sharp-edged satire.Bateman's targets are the men he hates and women he lusts after. The film targets the ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
Cinema em Cena (Pablo Villaça)
Bloody-Distgusting
Bale is very good, while Harron directs wonderfully. She gets every scene exactly the way it should be. She knows Patrick has to have everything perfectly. When he doesn't like what he sees, well, you can pretty much guess what happens. There is ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Bloody-Distgusting
Movielocity Movie Reviews (Blake Kunisch)
After reading the book, I was expecting the worst - American Psycho was extremely close to an NC-17 rating, with only 2 or 3 seconds cut, and the book was so extremely descriptive and horrific, I wasn't really sure what the movie could possibly be like. ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Movielocity Movie Reviews (Blake Kunisch)
Xiibaro Productions (David Perry)
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Based on the controversial book by Bret Easton Ellis comes the sure-to-be controversial film, American Psycho. Christian Bale plays Patrick Bateman, a Wall Street yuppie by day who becomes a brutal serial killer by night. Patrick doesn't just kill ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Michael Dequina
Neither can I, especially not after seeing Christian Bale so effortlessly pull off this scene as the title character in _American_Psycho_, a part that at one point been offered toand very nearly been accepted bythe golden boy of _Titanic_. This ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Michael Dequina
Brian Matherly
I was first introduced to the novel when I was still in high school. I read an Associated Press article in our local Sunday newspaper detailing the problems Ellis was having getting his novel published due to the controversial violence in it. As usual ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Brian Matherly
Ron Small
Starring: Christian Bale, William Dafoe, Jared Leto, Chloe Sevigny, William Sage, Cara Seymour, Reese Witherspoon, Samantha Mathis, Guinevere Turner, Justin TherauxAt one point during AMERICAN PSYCHO a naked, bloodied Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Ron Small
David N. Butterworth
Tobe Hooper's influential horror masterpiece from 1974 succeeded by showing a true face of horror without catering to excessive gore and bloodshed. And in "American Psycho," Harron has, with almost eerie confidence, done the same. Save for one ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at David N. Butterworth
Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
With this and Shaft, Brit Bale seems to want to get himself typecast as a psycho. Well, he is good at it... (Remember him from Empire of the Sun? Who knew how he would turn out). ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
Reel.com
When Bret Easton Ellis' novel American Psycho was published in 1991, it sliced critics right down the middle. Most condemned its profile of an affluent '80s serial killer mutilating women as a sick, misogynist diatribe, while a vocal minority praised ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Reel.com
Nick's Flick Picks (Nick Davis)
You'll notice, though, that however craftily executed, none of these ideas are anything new: that late-80s Manhattan was a demimonde society of extreme superficiality, that moral behavior is incommensurable with any culture that views bodies as ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Nick's Flick Picks (Nick Davis)
DVD Talk (G. Noel Gross)
Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)
The subject matter may seem unpleasant, but it’s hard not to be interested in Bateman’s character and the world he lives in. ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)
Brandon Herring
Patrick Batemen is not your typical business man, he is a handsome, well built man who keeps his body in shape, and takes care of his body. In the opening five minutes we learn how Patrick does this, by applying exfoliating lotions, soaps, etc. But ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Brandon Herring
The Movie Insider (Steven Taylor)
Steven Taylor, Contributor Cast & Crew Details Poster Artwork Production Photos Trailer & Clips American Psycho is a disturbing movie filled with the brutal murders and executions of various people (mostly of the female persuasion). What's really scary ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at The Movie Insider (Steven Taylor)
The New Zealand Herald
Bret Easton Ellis' controversially bloodsoaked 1991 novel, which is the basis of this stylish piece of comic horror, was a work of its time, a sometimes distastefully detailed slasher epic which imparted a homicidally nasty spin to the ideas canvassed ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at The New Zealand Herald
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Sight unseen (except by attendees at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, where the movie premiered), Mary Harron's American Psycho has already become one of the most controversial motion pictures of the year (making it a "must see" for some film-goers). The ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
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