American Psycho - Movie Reviews (2024)

The film’s crisp and controlled style is immediately appealing, but things become repetitive in the film’s second act. Luckily the open-ended and frenetic conclusion makes for an even more compelling examination of the film’s themes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 13, 2024

I will not give away the ending to American Psycho, but I will say this: The last three scenes are implausible and unnecessary (and totally unrelated to the book) and the ending includes the cheapest, most manipulative trick in filmmaking.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 28, 2023

... A ferociously intelligent, horribly violent and darkly funny parable of greed and violence.

Full Review | Apr 25, 2023

Christian Bale is razor sharp... as blank corporate drone Patrick Bateman... a preening tiger in designer suits whose speaking voice is part salesman, part self-help guru, and completely artificial

Full Review | Apr 8, 2023

I couldn't connect with this movie at all. In a way, the story kind of goes nowhere. But at the same time, Christian Bale goes for broke and you can't help but appreciate it.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 9, 2022

Despite an incredible performance by Christian Bale, this movie was a struggle to get through given that none of the characters had any redeeming qualities.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 9, 2022

Expertly made and does what it's trying to do very well, but I just can't fully connect with this one.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2020

American Psycho directly addresses the horror of capitalism, in which other people are just props for the fantasies of men who get wealthier by the second.

Full Review | Sep 16, 2020

The idea that this is all a fantasy inside Bateman's head is brilliantly realised in his growing realisation that he's been able to get away with all of this in plain sight.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 24, 2020

There are times where this film is satire at its best. It's also horrific, violent and stomach-turning. Christian Bale is incredible in this movie and he commits to making Bateman completely deplorable.

Full Review | Jun 9, 2020

Graced with a smart, pathos-laden meditation on male competition and the blood-drawing ferocity of a money-centered culture, along with screenwriter Guinevere Turner, Harron does a transformative voodoo on an often repugnant source.

Full Review | Feb 4, 2020

American Psycho is one of the greatest horror films of all time; with its disturbingly dark comedy, psychotic breakdowns of society and an unnerving look at the obsessive thoughts of a serial killer.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 27, 2019

As far as revelations go, the final twist in American Psycho is more bewildering than earth-shattering, but that's what makes it great.

Full Review | Jun 20, 2019

I've always found Mary Harron's vision of Bret Easton Ellis's arch satire of '80s greed, excess, and grooming to be a lot funnier than its reputation.

Full Review | Oct 24, 2018

When you're a white, rich man in American, you can get away with anything. Murder and rape? Go ahead! Commit at will because the world is your oyster.

Full Review | Oct 24, 2018

Like all great films, "American Psycho" is one you can discover something new in regardless of how many times you've seen it.

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | Jul 31, 2017

A bloody, gruesome black comedy that's not for kids.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 29, 2014

A brave adaptation of a bracing book.

Full Review | Mar 28, 2011

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.

Full Review | Mar 28, 2011

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?

Full Review | Mar 28, 2011