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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 01 Feb 2019

Dramatically speaking, it’s a failed thought experiment—you get, watching it, why no one has really told this kind of story in this way…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 01 Feb 2019

Zac Efron projects the right amount of edgy, empty handsomeness, but the movie’s conceit doesn’t pay enough dividends — especially when…

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By Rodrigo Perez (382) for The Playlist (3,871) on 01 Feb 2019

A superficial tale about the casualty at the center of the story, Extremely Wicked, rings hollow and false and is really just as interested…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 01 Feb 2019

In my judgment, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile is an honestly unsettling and authentic inquiry into the question of who Ted Bundy…

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By Kate Erbland (681) for IndieWire (3,631) on 01 Feb 2019

More sad than salacious, it’s the rare film about a criminal that offers human details without humanizing a man who so many agree was a monster…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 01 Feb 2019

It’s quite a story, which Berlinger moves along with unrelenting energy…

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By Vince Mancini (256) for Uproxx (697) on 01 Feb 2019

Extremely Wicked‘s portrayal yawns with a sense of incompleteness…

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By Carlos Aguilar (278) for TheWrap (3,203) on 01 Feb 2019

“Extremely Wicked” winds up a thought-provoking piece of cinema that avoids the easy temptation of shock value in favor of a more philosophical…

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By Matthew Passantino (89) for Film Threat (5,156) on 01 Feb 2019

At times, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile is all about the performances because the movie itself struggles a bit with settling on a tone…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 01 Feb 2019

If all we’re really taking from a movie about a man who murdered 30-plus women is “Zac Efron sure is surprising,” then I don’t think…

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By Benjamin Lee (469) for The Guardian (2,969) on 01 Feb 2019

It’s a star vehicle that starts and ends with its star, the film around him struggling to justify its existence. Efron is wicked, the film less so…

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By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 01 Feb 2019

As an oddity of the serial killer genre, some of Berlinger’s choices ring more as engagingly strange than unsuccessful…

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