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100A lean and mean horror comedy classic.
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91Funny, pungent, and weirdly gripping.
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90An uneven movie that nonetheless bristles with stinging wit and exerts a perverse fascination.
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90An ethereal, creepy, almost breathtaking meditation on the life of a mind snapped in two.
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90Harron's adaptation of Ellis's novel is brilliant, probably better than the book itself.
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90But 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.
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90A provocative success; wiping away the gore, Harron and Bale have found a mirror that forces us to look at ourselves and ask tough, disturbing questions -- which is ultimately what the best satire always does.
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80Cloaking (Bateman's) world in a hyperrealist light so sharp you could cut yourself on it, Harron keeps the violence minimal, over the top and ghoulishly funny.
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80Bateman could have been much more interesting if he'd been played by someone who wouldn't need to work quite so hard (Charlie Sheen or Rob Lowe might have been fascinating here).
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80The 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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75Christian Bale is heroic in the way he allows the character to leap joyfully into despicability.
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75Has the feverish intensity of a bad dream, leavened with a subversive sense of humor that is both sophisticated and cracked.
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75The real highlight is when Bateman and his co-workers compare custom business cards in a grueling, ego-shattering game of one-upmanship that is so linked to their sense of self it might as well be Russian roulette.
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75Exceedingly well cast and assembled with flashy visuals and pacing by Harron, this period piece is diminished by its relative pointlessness.
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75A withering condemnation of a culture where greed is a virtue, a culture that you don't have to feel guilty for laughing at.
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71The film's details are spot-on, its tone ludicrously ironic, and its casting deft.
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70Nearly perfect for what it is.
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70Pace is sleek, airless and apt.
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67Neither bloodthirsty enough to trigger the gag reflex of anyone but the most anemic viewer nor clever enough to yield much in the way of particularly engrossing insights.
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67It's so steeped in the coldness and inhumanity of its protagonist that it's ultimately more clinical than absorbing.
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63A second-rate nightmare: the Reagan generation meets Leatherhead with flickers of brilliance drowned in blood and snobbery, a corpse dressed by Bloomingdale's.
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63Harron validates and largely clarifies the work.
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60It's not a great film, but let's face it: Considering the source, this is as good as it was ever going to get.
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60There's nothing beyond the bloodshed and gallows humor, just intellectually secondhand implications about materialism, conformity and misogyny.
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50A standard-issue slasher movie, stylishly shot, but with little to distinguish it from a long line of "Psycho"-spawned gorefests.
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50In both senses of the word, American Psycho wastes its women.
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50A fairly loathsome and shallow movie about loathsome and shallow people, but it's almost worth catching to see star Christian Bale chew up the scenery.
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50(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?
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50Lacking any equivalent to the Sadean excess of Ellis's prose, it is also further evacuated of purpose.
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50(Herron) just doesn't make the case that this book was worth filming.
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38A misfiring black comedy oddly reminiscent of all those bad 1990s movies about strippers getting killed at bachelor parties.
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38A high-end version of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" set in the rarefied bistros, boites and brokerages of Yuppie Manhattan in the 1980s.
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38Ambiguity can enrich a movie, but artists abdicate their responsibilities if they don't take a stance of any kind.
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20Stillborn, pointless piece of work.
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12Most of American Psycho just sits there, looking at trouble, rather than looking for it - complacent, overjoyed in fact to exist at all.
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