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.
22 July 1955, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
7 May 1949, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
23 May 1968, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
3 January 1970, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
2 November 1966, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
6 February 1911, Tampico, Illinois, USA
5 September 1971, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
3 March 1940, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
17 June 1977, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 April 1962, New York City, New York, USA
12 May 1970, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
18 November 1974, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
10 August 1971, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
September 11, 2010
much like the 80's era that it personifies
August 07, 2008
Harron' s incisive eye and Bale' s bravura performance carry the day.
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 needs to be seen and appreciated, like a serpent in a glass cage.
April 29, 2014
A bloody, gruesome black comedy that's not for kids.
May 30, 2008
Harron's Psycho reps an impressive reclaiming of dubious material.
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 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.
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?
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
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.
