Dahmer 2002

Critics score:
68 / 100

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Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It's a hellish, numbing experience to watch, and it doesn't offer any insights that haven't been thoroughly debated in the media already, back in the Dahmer heyday of the mid-'90s. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: It's difficult to feel anything much while watching this movie, beyond mild disturbance or detached pleasure at the acting. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: As gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its title character, there remains a huge gap between the film's creepy, clean-cut Dahmer (Jeremy Renner) and fiendish acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Suffers from a lack of clarity and audacity that a subject as monstrous and pathetic as Dahmer demands. Read more

Houston Chronicle: Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It lets you brush up against the humanity of a psycho, without making him any less psycho. Read more

Tom Sime, Dallas Morning News: Renner's performance as Dahmer is unforgettable, deeply absorbing. Read more

Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly: Renner ... is extraordinary. Read more

Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: The movie should be credited with remembering his victims. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: Jacobson produces a remarkably creepy piece of cinema that disturbs by suggestion, nuance and ambiguity. Read more