American Psycho

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Critics' Reviews

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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
A lean and mean horror comedy classic.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
Funny, pungent, and weirdly gripping.Read Full Review »
90
Time: Richard Corliss
But the carnage, like the sex scenes, is shot so pristinely that it becomes a nouvelle-cuisine feast; this is a splatter film Martha Stewart could love.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
An uneven movie that nonetheless bristles with stinging wit and exerts a perverse fascination.Read Full Review »
75
USA Today: Mike Clark
Exceedingly well cast and assembled with flashy visuals and pacing by Harron, this period piece is diminished by its relative pointlessness.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Christian Bale is heroic in the way he allows the character to leap joyfully into despicability.Read Full Review »
70
Slate: David Edelstein
Nearly perfect for what it is.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
There's nothing beyond the bloodshed and gallows humor, just intellectually secondhand implications about materialism, conformity and misogyny.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
(Harron) has made a passionless movie about a passionless man, and it's all supposed to add up to make us feel or even just think something, but what?Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Jay Carr
In both senses of the word, American Psycho wastes its women.Read Full Review »
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