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

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

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

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

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

American Psycho contorts itself into a pretentious muddle.

| 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

Bale is perfect for the role.

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

Harron does many things right in this film... the movie she made is the definitive realization of Ellis' moral fable.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 4, 2025

The Bret Easton Ellis novel was widely despised, but director Mary Harron has culled the redundancies, spin-polished the metaphors and left us with one funny, provocative movie.

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

Harron... has made an extremely glossy, shallow movie about an extremely glossy, shallow man.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 4, 2025

"American Psycho" is such a good-looking movie that it negates any sense the viewer should have about the inherent emptiness of judging people by their looks, or by what after shave they wear, or what car they drive.

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

Intelligent and stimulating, Mary Harron's feature provokes countless questions.

| Apr 4, 2025

It's all clever stuff -- but in an over-familiar way.

| Apr 4, 2025

As a satire of the '80s... the film does the book justice.

| Apr 4, 2025

Christian Bale is flat-out terrific... it's a shame the movie's not up to his level.

| Apr 4, 2025

A very fine performance by Christian Bale distinguishes this vicious satire on Reagan-era greed and yuppiedom, in a visually rich film which is often surprisingly funny, in a Kafka-ish kind of way.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 4, 2025

There's only so much an actor can do to personify an elaborately arch and ugly notion of evil. The performance wears thin as the knives, nail gun and chain saw come out and the bodies and limbs pile up.

| Apr 4, 2025