It’s hip to be a square
With so many movies at our fingertips, it’s hard to know what to watch and often we rely on aggregator sites like Rotten Tomatoes to help but the lower the score, the more likely we are to skip it, unless it’s very low and morbid curiosity takes over. Sometimes it’s trickier, especially if critics and audiences disagree. This is the case for American Psycho, a movie I will go to bat for whenever the opportunity arises.
I’ll do the same for the novel it’s based on by Bret Easton Ellis, which received plenty of backlash at the time due to its exploration of some controversial topics. In my eyes, it’s a classic and a movie that horror fans in particular should absolutely watch, especially as it’s part of everything new on Netflix in July 2024 in the US (those in Australia can already stream it).
American Psycho’s critic rating is only 68% on Rotten Tomatoes, which means it doesn’t make the cut for our best Netflix movies list (even though the audience gave it 85%), but it also doesn’t have a huge number of critic reviews logged, with only 154 entries at the time of writing.
