American Psycho

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  • 2000


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Positive Reviews 42
Negative reviews 8
Average Rating 3.6/5
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3.0
The transition doesnt entirely work; its confounding when it should be haunting. EW
3.8
As a film project, it has gone through screenplays, directors and stars for years. Rogerebert
4.0
Fortunately, the way the movie mixes these ingredients makes it subversively fun to watch. Common Sense Media
3.8
More so than the book, the film is a nightmarish vision of 80s self involvement.
5.0
But its hard to summon up enthusiasm for a performance so rooted in bloody banality.
3.0
Instead, it falls somewhere in between, neither bloodthirsty enough to trigger the gag reflex of anyone but the most anemic viewer nor clever enough t ..
2.5
A suffocated dislocation of the books greatest hits, the film too rarely stretches out with a penetrating thought of its own. San Francisco Chronicle
3.8
Psycho Skewers Avarice Of 80s / Violent satire refined for film When it was published in 1991, Bret Easton Ellis novel American Psycho generated a lev .. San Francisco Chronicle
2.5
It ends up being a tasteless and pointless film.This is, to say the very least, a disturbing film, even if the grisly killings take place mostly offsc .. Sover
4.4
In both editions, American Psycho is an effectively barbed satire of American morals and values, a blacker than black comedy that elicits equal parts .. ReelViews
3.0
Its not a great film, but lets face it: Considering the source, this is as good as it was ever going to get. Tv Guide
3.5
I like ambiguous and challenging endings, but a movie of this kind needs to leave us with something. Combust Ible Celluloid
4.0
The slick satire cleverly equates materialism, narcissism, misogyny, and classism with homicide, but you may laugh so loud at the protagonist that you .. Chicago Reader
3.0
Epic dramas can be two hours or more.For light comedy, brevity is better.
1.9
And I could have forgiven all that if not for the completely ludicrous ending. Reel Film Reviews
4.5
... A ferociously intelligent, horribly violent and darkly funny parable of greed and violence. The Times
3.5
Those looking for an exploration of what makes an American psycho tick are bound to be disappointed, as are those looking for a good scary film. Screen It
4.0
Its so manic and offbeat that we never really feel this is real life. Shadows On The Wall
4.5
If, in Harron and Turners screenplay, there are dark patches of genuine humor and irony, there are also detours into B movie horror terrain that are a .. Film Journal International ..
2.5
Not that it was worth the effort.Despite some strong performances and off kilter, wince worthy humor, the overbearing direction and an uncertain tone .. Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
4.5
But I find the its all in his head interpretation so much more satisfying.
1.5
The movie is elegantly shot, but based on whats on screen, its hard to tell what motivated Mary Harron to direct this emotionally vapid feature Emanuellevy
4.0
Nevertheless, American Psycho emerges as a powerful indictment of the Me Generation and its lingering value system. Reel Talk Reviews
2.0
Watch Sacha Baron Cohen Trick Joe Arpaio Into Saying Hed Have To Say Yes to Oral Sex From Donald Trump Queen of the Waves, in This Weeks Open Thread D .. Slate
4.5
Rounded out with crisp, antiseptic photography and a soundtrack mixing the brilliant and the deliberately banal, this is a powerhouse journey into the ..
4.0
Unlike many directors who are keen to furnish the big screen with ideas, Harron has a strong sense of narrative structure. Bbc
4.5
It needs to be seen and appreciated, like a serpent in a glass cage. Time
4.4
Given how unsettling the films ultimate effect is, it almost seems inappropriate to call American Psycho enjoyable, but most of this wild and perverse .. Mr Brown Movies
2.5
The film attempts the same thing, but verges off course in its conclusion to be something that almost begs you, in an overwrought fashion, to feel sym .. The Movie Boy
5.0
Co screenwriter/director Harron composes the film with Hitchcock inspired compositions to charge the scripts paper dry wit with a palpable combination .. Coles Mithey
3.1
Thanks mostly to Bales performance of brilliantly ironic madness, American Psycho remains a potent, perceptive piece of backhanded Americana, in mood .. Spliced Wire
4.4
It doesnt aim to frighten or gross out its audiences.Instead, American Psycho is a social satire, a character study, and a dark comedy. Movie Habit
3.5
Pared down and resurrected as a crisply stylized three parter, American Psycho is at once a sharp satire and an earnest study in the deadly consequenc .. La Weekly
5.0
Heroes of the Zeroes is Nick Rogers daily, alphabetical look back at the 365 best films from 2000 to 2009.American Psycho Rated R 2000 When Patrick Ba .. The Filmy Ap
1.9
Harron succeeds on one level by assembling a cast of almost identical looking actors to play the businessmen, which underscores one of the films theme .. Big Picture Big Sound
4.5
And if that big finale isnt a downbeat horror kicker, I dont know what is. The Ringer
4.4
Never mind that, the film is directed with a lot of wit and style, and it looks absolutely gorgeous, thanks to photography by Andrzej Sekula.This is o .. Montreal Film Journal
3.0
Conceptually, this savage cartoon ends up as trapped in surfaces as its shallow antihero: its all dressed up with nowhere to go. News Week
4.0
McDermott: Bills QB competition remains wide open A.J. McCarron took first team reps Wednesday and Thursday, but that was by design and Sean McDermott .. Rochester Goes Out
1.5
Christian Bale is razor sharp... as blank corporate drone Patrick Bateman... a preening tiger in designer suits whose speaking voice is part salesman, .. Stream On Demand At Home
4.0
American Psycho paints this picture brilliantly, but the canvas is too big. Nitrate Online
4.5
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4.5
Harron struggles a touch to approximate the sheer nihilistic weight of the novel, though thats understandable when shes got to compress a 400 page nov .. Patrick Nabarro
3.0
All the same, sensory effect is just as vital to good filmmaking as intellectual cogency. Nicks Flick Picks
5.0
But wait its funny, too.Mary Harron and Christian Bale create an almost magical balance between the tragic and comic elements of this story. Horror
4.5
As far as revelations go, the final twist in American Psycho is more bewildering than earth shattering, but thats what makes it great.
4.5
His coworkers think hes just a standard, awful young douchebag but what they dont know is that hes actually a psychopath who murders people (mainly se ..
1.5
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3.0
Succeeds in entertaining the audience, but diminishes the overall power of the social critique Ellis had in mind. Mixed Reviews
4.5
Yet, with the humour that weaves in and out of the film, hes also likeable somehow, because he knows hes unhinged, and he doesnt hide it. Their Own League
4.5
A seriously misjudged moment of slasher film, chainsaw lunacy threatens to completely dismantle Harrons previous cool, sinister precision.
0.5
The House of Mirth Terence Daviess adaptation of Edith Whartons 1905 novel plumbs deeper tragedy than Scorseses Wharton movie, 1993s The Age of Innoce .. The Baffler
4.5
Bateman is more than just a businessman, hes a twisted serial killer. Filmotomy
1.5
I couldnt connect with this movie at all. In a way, the story kind of goes nowhere. But at the same time, Christian Bale goes for broke and you cant h .. Medium Popcorn



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