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American Psycho (2000) Rank 5 Reviews
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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)
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")
Film Gazette (Veronica Mixon)
An astonishing achievement! ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Film Gazette (Veronica Mixon)
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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)
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
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)
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)
Buzz (Tanya Marsh)
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
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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)
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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)
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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.)
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
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
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
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)
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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
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
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
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)
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
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
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)
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
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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
Days of Thunder (Travis Hoover)
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filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
From the opening scene, showing drops of blood on a pristine white surface, we know we're in for... well, not your ordinary slasher flick. Turns out the "blood" is a berry sauce being applied to a plate of haute cuisine. And the mind games ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
UpcomingDiscs.com (David Annandale)
Christian Bale plays Patrick Bateman, Wall Street dealer and psychotic. He, like his peers, is completely obsessed with surfaces, narcissistic beyond all measure, and about as deep as a sheet of mylar (and his extended exegesis on the music of Huey ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at UpcomingDiscs.com (David Annandale)
Gary Jones
Bateman's scary shallowness is also demonstrated in the scenes in which he prepares to indulge in murder or joyless professional sex by giving those he is about to butcher or bed an admiring and pseudointellectual analysis of the music of Whitney ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Gary Jones
Lobo Howls (Judith Wolfe)
Movie Review: American
Psycho
Story: I confess to having a long time morbid fascination with
serial killers. So while I did not read Bret Easton Ellis'
book, I could ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Lobo Howls (Judith Wolfe)
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Film Threat (Chris Gore)
It's smart, frightening and funny. ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Film Threat (Chris Gore)
Daily-Reviews (Brian Matherly)
For once, a film has actually turned out to be better than the novel it was based on. ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Daily-Reviews (Brian Matherly)
artechock (Ruediger Suchsland; Thomas Willmann)
Im ersten Augenblick strahlt die Leinwand so schneeweiß, wie noch nie am Beginn eines Films. Reine Unschuld. Ausgerechnet hier, wo selbst diejenigen, die Bret Easton Ellis‘ Roman "American Psycho" nur vom Hörensagen kennen, das Kino kaum ohne flaues ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at artechock (Ruediger Suchsland; Thomas Willmann)
Daytona Beach News-Journal (Fl.) (Jeff Farance)
Bale is incredibly nimble, moving from cruelty to faux concern, preening to self-doubt. His meltdown is spectacular. ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Daytona Beach News-Journal (Fl.) (Jeff Farance)
Empire Magazine (Kim Newman)
The best imaginable film of very difficult material. ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Empire Magazine (Kim Newman)
Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
An uneven movie that nonetheless bristles with stinging wit and exerts a perverse fascination. ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
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The UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
Still, on that level the movie works well. Although it is a missed opportunity (Ellis's angry expression of the madness of the situation was more affecting), it is at least an entertaining deflation of white-collar stuffed shirts, and those guys can be ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at The UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
Reel Movie Critic (George O. Singleton)
At first, you believe this is a film about a New York dealmaker of mergers and acquisitions, who is a mass murderer. But after a while, some things just don't add up, and you begin to wonder if Bateman is really doing this, or just wants to do it. It ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Reel Movie Critic (George O. Singleton)
Steve Rhodes
Actually the movie is directed by Mary Harron (I SHOT ANDY WARHOL) and the script, based on Bret Easton Ellis's controversial and popular novel, is written by Mary Harron and Guinevere Turner.In a masterful performance, Christian Bale approaches his ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Steve Rhodes
Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)
Here's the trouble: a faithful adaption of American Psycho would inspire mass walk-outs, maybe even riots. Publication of Bret Easton Ellis's serial killer novel was famously delayed when Simon & Schuster reneged on its commitment to the book (and a ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)
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Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
Don't believe the hype: American Psycho is no more “the most disgusting film of the year” (as dodgy Brit tabloid News of the World tagged it) than it is the wittiest. Instead, it falls somewhere in between, neither bloodthirsty enough to trigger the gag ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
Mediajonez (Michael Dumas)
New for rent this week on the shelves of your local video store is one twisted movie. Now, since I haven't had a chance to read the book American Psycho, I won't add "based on a really twisted book." Let's just assume that we know the book was twisted as ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Mediajonez (Michael Dumas)
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Planet Sick-Boy (Jon Popick)
Bret Easton Ellis’ novel American Psycho was so disturbing and controversial that it had to scramble for new publisher at the last minute when Simon & Schuster backed out after having second thoughts regarding the murderous tale of an ‘80s yuppie ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Planet Sick-Boy (Jon Popick)
Shay Casey
Christian Bale plays Patrick Bateman, a hotshot young Wall Street executive. Patrick is handsome and successful. He gets chauffeured around in a limo, lives in a cavernous, posh apartment, and throws money around like confetti. He also has a problem: He ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Shay Casey
James Futch
MPAA: Rated R for strong violence, sexuality, drug use and language. Runtime: USA:97 / UK:101 / Germany:102 (Berlin film festival) Country: Canada / USA Language: English Color: Color Certification: USA:R / UK:18 / Australia:R James Futch ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at James Futch
Shannon Patrick Sullivan
But those who have sought to censor "American Psycho" have done so with little merit. This is not a movie about murder per se, and any intelligent watching of the film should make that obvious. Does the lead character, Patrick Bateman, kill people? Yes, ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Shannon Patrick Sullivan
Walter Frith
Patrick Bateman has another passion. After luring his prey to his yuppie pad in the heart of New York City, Bateman has the seduction going perfectly. Champagne in the bedroom, a pleasant atmosphere and he puts music on and critiques it in harmonious ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Walter Frith
Movies for Guys
For me this movie flirted with a 4 star rating, I really enjoyed it. It settled down to 3 stars only because I didn't like the last 10-15 minutes. However, I must put the disclaimer on here ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Movies for Guys
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Steve Murray)
A visually chilly but often very funny satire of American greed and conspicuous consumption. ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Steve Murray)
DVD Talk (Jeremy Kleinman)
This film is definitely not for everyone. It is filled with violence, real and imaginary. It does not offer the most satisfying of endings, a la Silence of the Lambs, but rather an uncertain one. The film is rather challenging and may not always seem ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at DVD Talk (Jeremy Kleinman)
Mr. Brown's Movies (Michael Dequina)
Bale's achievement is in suggesting far more dimensions than his character would ever admit to having. ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Mr. Brown's Movies (Michael Dequina)
eFilmCritic.com (Erik Childress)
It is a fable, albeit a dark and twisted one destined to be praised by some, abhorred by others and turned into a cult classic by even more. ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Erik Childress)
Sacramento Bee (Joe Baltake)
A savagely funny feminist take on just how dangerous stupid men can be. ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Sacramento Bee (Joe Baltake)
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Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
It's just as well a woman directed "American Psycho." She's transformed a novel about blood lust into a movie about men's vanity. A male director might have thought Patrick Bateman, the ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Moviola (Jorge Avila Andrade)
Una de las más comentadas, ingeniosas e inteligentes películas del año ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Moviola (Jorge Avila Andrade)
Matinee Magazine (Jason Clark)
It is entertaining and often very funny, even when you hope that director Harron will next find a subject that is truly worthy of her considerable talents. ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Matinee Magazine (Jason Clark)
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The year is 1987. Wall Street smoothie Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) is preparing to meet the new day. As he anoints his buff-enough-for-Bay-Watch bod with an endless series of unguents, emollients, lubricants, and conditioners (who does he think he ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Bright Lights Film Journal
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Do you remember John Dowell, the defective narrator of Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece, "The Good Soldier?" Surrounded by infidelity, madness, suicide & treachery, Dowell lived a simple life with quiet pleasures until he recognized the truth about his wife ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Movie Magazine International
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Much of Hollywood’s current interpretations of the 1980’s have centered around its silliness: 1998’s The Wedding Singer mocked the bad clothes, bad music, and bad hair of the decade, while movies like The Last Days of Disco, Boogie Nights, and ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Jiminy Critic (Mike Dean)
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This is a sharp-edged black comedy
set in the Reagan era. In the high profit but
scruple-less, rarefied atmosphere of Wall Street
finance, one corporate vice-president relieves the
boredom with murder and ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Mark R. Leeper
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Bret Easton Ellis' 1991 novel "American Psycho" was one of the most reviled books of the last decade. The venomous rhetoric that surrounded its publication was almost as gory as Ellis' intricately detailed descriptions of murder and mutilation committed ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
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We can take measure of our times by looking back and noting that when Alfred Hitchcock made "Psycho" in 1960, he said he shot it in black-and-white because color photography would make the film too gory. "American Psycho," made forty years later, is ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at DVD Town (John J. Puccio)
Man Who Viewed Too Much (Mike D'Angelo)
Ultimately it all feels as hollow as its subject's ostentatiously avaricious lifestyle. ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Man Who Viewed Too Much (Mike D'Angelo)
Dark Horizons (Garth Franklin)
I haven't read the novel which the film is based on, but those expecting a horror film - or even suspense really, are likely to find themselves disappointed. Rather, Director Mary Harron has created a VERY black thriller filled with a twisted sense of ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Dark Horizons (Garth Franklin)
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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)
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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)
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...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)
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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)
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[ 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)
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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
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
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
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)
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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
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)
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)
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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A misfiring black comedy. ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at New York Post (Jonathan Foreman)
Susan Granger
It's really hard to be objective about this picture. I loathed it. But why? Based on Bret Easton Ellis's controversial 1991 novel, it revolves around Patrick Bateman, a vain, rich, vacuous Wall Street stockbroker who becomes a serial killer. The ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Susan Granger
Hollywood.com (Jim Bartoo)
Sex, drugs and sadistic homicide mark disappointing Sundance buzz-maker. ...read the complete American Psycho movie review at Hollywood.com (Jim Bartoo)
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