It's to Bale's credit that this yuppie anomaly remains semi-watchable as the rest of the film slips into a comatose surreality.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 7, 2025

The truly dangerous thing about the film of "American Psycho" isn't its weary moral, but that it insists on being a period piece, setting all of its horrid behavior and loathsome character so firmly, so safely, so arrogantly back in Ellis' own late '80s.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 5, 2025

A smug, monotonal, buttoned-down rendering of the one-gag novel by Bret Easton Ellis, it wastes the acting talent of Christian Bale and gives post-modern irony a bad name.

| Apr 5, 2025

Although the film looks sharp, the emotional comfort zone Harron allows the audience simply saps it of any bite or value.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 5, 2025

Bale so inhabits the character that we seem to be inside his increasingly deranged mind.

| Apr 5, 2025

Harron's methodical direction echoes Bateman's matter-of-fact take on murder.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 5, 2025

Bales gives a performance drained of personality and humanity, sometimes exhibiting a glint of affected charm, sometimes even saying the right thing.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 5, 2025

Perversely entertaining but not without glitches, "American Psycho" is crafted with lavish mathematical precision.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 5, 2025

By distilling the novel to its satirical essence, Harron turns it into a withering condemnation of a culture where greed is a virtue, a culture that you don't have to feel guilty for laughing at.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 5, 2025

It isn't as clever as Ellis' book but the movie is much funnier.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 5, 2025

America Psycho is slick and narcotic in a way that suits its time and mental placing.

| Apr 5, 2025

Bale's central performance as a Wall Street financier and mass murderer is impressive.

| Apr 5, 2025

Bale's performance is a tour de force.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 5, 2025

Only the ending breaks the mood of a poised and assured piece.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2025

Bale delivers an impossible attractive exterior surrounding an empty void, but gives us enough grimly amusing moments to keep us hanging around for the next murder.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2025

American Psycho contorts itself into a pretentious muddle.

| Apr 4, 2025

Ultimately, the film becomes what is mocks: an easier, more pleasurable experience. But not necessarily a meaningful one.

| Apr 4, 2025

Harron layers a stylized gloss on the proceedings that captures the culture of a stylized -- and superficial -- decade.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2025

The result is a film as cold and detached as its main character, and almost as empty as Ellis' novel.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 4, 2025

In satirizing a goofy, greedy era, director Mary Harron beats the controversial novel at its own game.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2025