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By Elena Lazic (92) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 02 Jul 2018

Although My Friend Dahmer does not resolve the impossible question of 'nature vs nurture', it approaches it with a humanity that is too often…

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By Stephen C (1,119) on 29 Jun 2018

Based on a brilliant graphic novel, Lynch magnificently portrays the awkward human side of a young man's slow descent into darkness…

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By Jamie K (266) on 29 Jun 2018

Based on a brilliant graphic novel, Lynch magnificently portrays the awkward human side of a young man's slow descent into darkness…

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By Psychomuse (15) on 29 Jun 2018

It tells the macabre story of Jeffrey Dahmer, which is certainly engrossing material (like any tragedy that ends with grisly deaths)…

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By Bryan J (219) on 29 Jun 2018

Based on a brilliant graphic novel, Lynch magnificently portrays the awkward human side of a young man's slow descent into darkness…

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By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 14 Jun 2018

The movie is best as a study of teenage enthusiasm and exploitation, charting his association with a trio of anarchic classmates - including…

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By Ross Miller (135) for The National (Scotland) (129) on 12 Jun 2018

We are presented with Dahmer the person, not merely the bogeyman, and that makes it all the more unsettling…

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By Sarah Ward (538) for Concrete Playground (635) on 11 Jun 2018

Demonstrating that something darker lurks beneath the surface isn't as profound as the film seems to think…

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By Donald Clarke (1,051) for Irish Times (1,391) on 07 Jun 2018

My Friend Dahmer is nonetheless a sad film about squandered opportunity…

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By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 04 Jun 2018

Knowing how the story turned out inevitably drains the tale of tension, but there are some genuinely chilling moments…

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By Tom Shone (158) for Sunday Times (UK) (753) on 03 Jun 2018

[The film] is a modest, even honourable effort, driven not by lurid curiosity about Dahmer's crimes, but by the eerie view his high-school…

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By Aine O'connor (240) for Sunday Independent (Ireland) (504) on 03 Jun 2018

[Marc Meyers'] choice to cast Disney star Ross Lynch as Dahmer is inspired and Lynch really conveys isolation and creepiness…

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By Jamie Dunn (104) for The Skinny (809) on 03 Jun 2018

It's easy to imagine serial killers as Hannibal Lecter-style monsters, but remembering that they're real people living banal and sad lives…

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By Tom Birchenough (50) for The Arts Desk (640) on 03 Jun 2018

Avoiding the sensationalism that would have come so easily, the skill with which Meyers varies the tone of My Friend Dahmer, as he takes us…

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By Simran Hans (401) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 02 Jun 2018

It makes for something that ends up being sadder, weirder, more boring - but more convincing - than the average serial killer movie…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 31 May 2018

The whole assembly kit of Jeffrey Dahmer's dysfunction is laid out, and we can easily see how it all clicks together…

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By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 31 May 2018

The restraint with which Meyers handles his story deepens it, adding melancholy layers to Jeffrey's morbid dysfunction…

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By John Higgins (46) for Starburst (899) on 31 May 2018

Overall, this is more in keeping with more mainstream high school dramas, but doesn't have the vicious comic tone of films like Heathers and…

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By Ed Potton (195) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 31 May 2018

There's a hint of retrospective guilt here and you could question Backderf's morals, and by extension those of Meyers, for profiting from telling…

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By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 30 May 2018

A plausibly chilling portrait of an archetypal outsider whose nascent psychosis isn't easily compartmentalised or explained…

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