Dahmer
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 13 Ratings
- Summary: This film seeks to recast a modern symbol of evil as a man driven by very real weaknesses and needs and, in so doing, to broaden our sense of what it is to be human. (Peninsula Films)
- Director: David Jacobson
- Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
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Positive: 10 out of 18
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Mixed: 7 out of 18
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Negative: 1 out of 18
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100It's a triumph of the film that it manages to make Jeffrey Dahmer a human being -- at least a member of the species -- without ever bending toward empathy with or excuses for him.
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80Aided enormously by Jeremy Renner, his astonishing lead actor, Jacobson has created something we haven’t seen since “The Silence of the Lambs”: a sensitive, non-exploitative serial killer movie.
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60As gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its title character, there remains a huge gap between the film's creepy, clean-cut Dahmer (Jeremy Renner) and fiendish acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge.
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25So lacking in insight and gravity that it makes Dahmer seem like a pesky, pasty-faced loser who just wasn't popular enough.
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Positive: 3 out of 7
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Mixed: 1 out of 7
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Negative: 3 out of 7
