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Dahmer (2002) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Dahmer (2002) a score of 2.7303 out of 4

based on (79) reviews

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Excellent

(11)

Very Good

(45)

Good

(22)

Fair

(1)

Poor

(0)

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Portland Oregonian (Shawn Levy)

It's a triumph of the film that it manages to make Jeffrey Dahmer a human being -- at least a member of the species -- without ever bending toward empathy with or excuses for him....read the complete Dahmer (2002) review at Portland Oregonian (Shawn Levy)

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Film Threat (Tim Merrill)

Aided enormously by Jeremy Renner, his astonishing lead actor, Jacobson has created something we haven’t seen since “The Silence of the Lambs”: a sensitive, non-exploitative serial killer movie....read the complete Dahmer (2002) review at Film Threat (Tim Merrill)

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The New York Times (Stephen Holden)

As gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its title character, there remains a huge gap between the film's creepy, clean-cut Dahmer (Jeremy Renner) and fiendish acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge....read the complete Dahmer (2002) review at The New York Times (Stephen Holden)

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Seattle Times (Moira MacDonald)

It's a hellish, numbing experience to watch, and it doesn't offer any insights that haven't been thoroughly debated in the media already, back in the Dahmer heyday of the mid-'90s....read the complete Dahmer (2002) review at Seattle Times (Moira MacDonald)