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American Psycho
A wealthy New York investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman is also in the business of keeping his psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends a secret.
23 May 1968, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
18 August 1958, Huntsville, Alabama, USA
22 March 1976, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
3 April 1962, New York City, New York, USA
29 March 1970, Pointe Claire, Québec, Canada
6 February 1911, Tampico, Illinois, USA
March 31, 2008
Conceptually, this savage cartoon ends up as trapped in surfaces as its shallow antihero: it's all dressed up with nowhere to go.
March 28, 2011
It needs to be seen and appreciated, like a serpent in a glass cage.
August 07, 2008
Harron' s incisive eye and Bale' s bravura performance carry the day.
September 25, 2010
Mary Harron asks what's more unnerving - exaggerated, imagined violence or vacuous realities some wish to be real, psychosis as much in the construct as the character. Thus, "Psycho's" savagery goes beyond a simple screed against 1980s excess and greed.
November 20, 2010
The movie is elegantly shot, but based on what's on screen, it's hard to tell what motivated Mary Harron to direct this emotionally vapid feature
March 28, 2011
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?
September 11, 2010
much like the 80's era that it personifies
March 28, 2011
American Psycho is nearly perfect for what it is, but before we go on, we should ask what that actually amounts to. Can something with so rigid a thesis be a real work of art?
May 30, 2008
Harron's Psycho reps an impressive reclaiming of dubious material.
March 28, 2011
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.
April 29, 2014
A bloody, gruesome black comedy that's not for kids.