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.
Harron's Psycho reps an impressive reclaiming of dubious material.
– Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
30 May 2008
fresh:
It needs to be seen and appreciated, like a serpent in a glass cage.
– Richard Corliss,
TIME Magazine,
28 Mar 2011
fresh:
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?
– David Edelstein,
Slate,
28 Mar 2011
rotten:
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?
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
28 Mar 2011
fresh:
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.