American Psycho

Directed by Mary Harron, Lions Gate Films, on general release worldwide

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Adapted from the novel by Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho stars Christian Bale as the notorious Wall Street financier Patrick Bateman. It follows his apparent decline from a cynical misanthrope, idly spinning out his time between appointments to dine, pose, and philander, to a bloodied psychopath, unable to control a compulsion to dismember his victims while they are still breathing. The film has the gloss of pornography and the glamour of fashion photography. Perhaps this is appropriate, as psychopathy …