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.
Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Mary Harron Director
- Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman
- Justin Theroux as Timothy Bryce
- Willem Dafoe as Detective Donald Kimball
- Josh Lucas as Craig McDermott
- Bill Sage as David Van Patten
- Chloë Sevigny as Jean
- Reese Witherspoon as Evelyn Williams
- Samantha Mathis as Courtney Rawlinson
- Matt Ross as Luis Carruthers
- Jared Leto as Paul Allen
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
68%
Tomatometer
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
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
Fresh
It needs to be seen and appreciated, like a serpent in a glass cage.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Fresh
Harron's Psycho reps an impressive reclaiming of dubious material.
Dennis Harvey, Variety
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