Review of The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (2013) by Warner B — 18 Feb 2013

Overall a good pace, but the re-enactments were lacking.

This review of The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (2013) was written by Warner B on 18 Feb 2013.

The Jeffrey Dahmer Files has generally received mixed reviews.

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If the film’s spare re-enactments are a little awkward, they also smartly repurpose Dahmer’s studied reserve into a meditation on perversion…

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I'm not sure that director and co-writer Chris James Thompson's film sheds any new light on why Dahmer committed his crimes, but I'm also not…

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By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 22 Feb 2013

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