Efron does an admirable job, but Berlinger’s film - told through the lens of a frustrated girlfriend - sanitizes the reputation of a notorious monster

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 17, 2024

It is a film that skims the surface of its material, undermining a terrific performance in the process.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2024

There are bits and pieces here (including another fine performance from John Malkovich), but none of them are allowed to merge into anything worthwhile.

| Original Score: D- | May 10, 2024

...a Bundy played with muted yet devilish charm by Zac Efron...

| Aug 26, 2023

a fresh take on a well-known figure. [...] Yet, this brilliantly executed drama lacks the one thing that would have made it exceptional: to put it simply, Berlinger's Bundy is not "shockingly evil" at all.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 12, 2023

[Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile] wasn’t made as a way to sexualize or empathize with Ted Bundy, but it puts focus on the people around him who were manipulated.

| Jan 22, 2023

What Berlinger is after here, I think, is a collective portrait of a society taken in by Bundy — and, by extension, taken in by smiling evil that makes them feel good.

| Original Score: B | Aug 24, 2022

It’s set up to be told from Kendall’s perspective and early on the film does a good job of that. But she’s all but lost in the second half, tossed aside as Berlinger’s documentarian roots take over.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 20, 2022

With its mouthful title and stunt casting, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile begins with the inventive notion of telling Bundy's story from Liz's point-of-view, but it gives up on that conceit within minutes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 3, 2022

Efron makes for a disarming and terrifying Ted Bundy, but the film doesn't seem to know whose point of view it wants to take.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 30, 2020

I thought that Zac Efron did great and although it's not a perfect movie by any means I think it did a really good job at shedding a light on a story that's very complicated.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 16, 2020

Extremely Wicked does not showcase the misogynistic fury carefully hidden underneath Bundy's suave law student facade. It instead reduces its focus to his life just before his capture, his prison escapes and the highly theatrical murder trials.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 23, 2020

If it wasn't for Zac Efron embodying every inch of Ted Bundy's charismatic persona with a stunningly mesmerizing performance we'd be left with a forgettable affair.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 13, 2020

It isn't able to add anything new to the countless films, documentaries, 온라인카지노추천 shows and books that have already covered much of the same ground, with many doing so far more successfully.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 6, 2020

Why did people -- or, more specifically, women -- buy his nonsense? Even after Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, we still don't know.

| Jan 18, 2020

This movie is not a thriller. It is more akin to a drama... Therefore, there's more value in subjectivity, the internal world of the characters, than in the objectivity of the actions. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 30, 2019

Everything before [Bundy's arrest] is chronicled in this movie and it's fascinating.

| Sep 28, 2019

A merely 'OK' drama, which demonstrates Zac Efron's previously unseen dramatic abilities. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 4, 2019

The character has so many facets... [Zac Efron] navigates them with aplomb. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 29, 2019

The series of "recreated" facts are expounded with apathy, opportunism, and a strict absence of suspense. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 29, 2019