American Psycho Critic Reviews

Metascore®:

69 =
Based upon 11 Critic Reviews
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The New York Times | Stephen HoldenAdd Critic to Favorites

A lean and mean horror comedy classic.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites

Funny, pungent, and weirdly gripping.Read the full review

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

An uneven movie that nonetheless bristles with stinging wit and exerts a perverse fascination.Read the full review

USA Today | Mike ClarkAdd Critic to Favorites

Exceedingly well cast and assembled with flashy visuals and pacing by Harron, this period piece is diminished by its relative pointlessness.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

Christian Bale is heroic in the way he allows the character to leap joyfully into despicability.Read the full review

Variety | Dennis HarveyAdd Critic to Favorites

Pace is sleek, airless and apt.Read the full review

Slate | David EdelsteinAdd Critic to Favorites

Nearly perfect for what it is.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Edward GuthmannAdd Critic to Favorites

Harron validates and largely clarifies the work.Read the full review

Washington Post | Desson ThomsonAdd Critic to Favorites

There's nothing beyond the bloodshed and gallows humor, just intellectually secondhand implications about materialism, conformity and misogyny.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Jay CarrAdd Critic to Favorites

In both senses of the word, American Psycho wastes its women.Read the full review

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