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By Alec B (1,705) on 24 Mar 2013

Surprise! No gore or shocking horror scenes. An attention grabbing reveal of the man and the people who met/knew him…

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By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 21 Mar 2013

Thompson's film is something really different, a film as polite and as unnerving as its subject, one that burrows down deep into your imagination…

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By Mike Scott (1,178) for Times-Picayune (642) on 15 Mar 2013

One gets the feeling that Thompson left a lot on the table with The Jeffrey Dahmer Files, that it could have been something more, something…

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By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 28 Feb 2013

In the end, the filmmakers don't reveal a lot of new insights into Dahmer's character, or answer questions about how all these murders went…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 27 Feb 2013

Thompson accepts quite a burden of informational responsibility, only to generate an aimless, tedious picture that's part documentary, part…

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

Far from closing the case, The Jeffrey Dahmer Files opens up a whole new perspective, acknowledging the banal and the baffling…

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By Warner B (24) on 18 Feb 2013

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

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By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 16 Feb 2013

An art collage project that unnecessarily obscures its sizzle and raison d'être when a more straightforward tack would have worked better…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 15 Feb 2013

All of that ends up making this movie — originally titled “Jeff,” in a telling bit of overpersonalization — feel like a late-night…

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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for New York Times (5,786) on 14 Feb 2013

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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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 13 Feb 2013

The Jeffrey Dahmer Files is for hardcore Dahmer obsessives only…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 12 Feb 2013

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 Nick Mccarthy (53) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Feb 2013

Teasing out a subversive portrait of a complex and rather subdued monster, The Jeffrey Dahmer Files unfolds with the same meticulousness exemplified…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Feb 2013

Thompson assembles his footage with an expert's touch, but what his film lacks is its own perspective on these atrocities…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 12 Feb 2013

The whole film seems dead set against offering up any kind of salaciousness…

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By David Nusair (3,363) for Reel Film Reviews (3,339) on 26 Apr 2012

a consistently uneven documentary that could (and should) have been much, much better…

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By John Defore (1,351) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 23 Apr 2012

Achieving an almost trance-like intimacy by paring its array of voices down to the essentials, Chris James Thompson's Jeff stands apart from…

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