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American Psycho

2000

Mary Harron

Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas ...

6.6

62,333

Drama. Horror A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

	Media	Author	Review
		Tom Sinclair Entertainment Weekly	"Funny, pungent, and weirdly gripping, American Psycho is a satire that feels like a hallucination."
		James Berardinelli ReelViews	"It represents one of the most daring, inventive, and invigorating movies to reach the screen during the dreary first half of 2000."
		Philip French The Guardian	"A shallow movie, as two-dimensional as its hero, though in a performance that is convincingly American, eerily disturbing and edgily comic, Christian Bale brings Bateman to life."
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"An uneven movie that nonetheless bristles with stinging wit and exerts a perverse fascination."
		Michael Thomson BBC	"The best monster movie in years (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"It's hard to summon up enthusiasm for a performance so rooted in bloody banality. I mean, as Patrick, Bale's most emotionally pressing dilemma is: Chainsaw or butcher knife?"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Christian Bale is heroic in the way he allows the character to leap joyfully into despicability; there is no instinct for self-preservation here, and that is one mark of a good actor (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Kim Newman Empire	"Often laugh-out-loud funny, conveying the cruelty of its world through persistent mistakings of identity among the well-scrubbed young men (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Ken Fox TV Guide	"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 (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Lisa Alspector Chicago Reader	"The slick satire cleverly equates materialism, narcissism, misogyny, and classism with homicide, but you may laugh so loud at the protagonist that you won't be able to hear yourself laughing with him."

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