American Psycho (2000)

W, 10.00PM ★★★★

 Adapted from Bret Easton Ellis’s satire of America in the Eighties, this blackly comic drama bristles with razorsharp wit and stars Christian Bale in the role that made him a household name. He plays Patrick Bateman, an unctuous Wall Street financier, obsessed with success. He’s also a serial killer who murders without provocation or reason. Willem Dafoe is the detective who suspects Bateman is up to no good.