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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 90
    Variety | Robert Koehler

    Jacobson produces a remarkably creepy piece of cinema that disturbs by suggestion, nuance and ambiguity. Read full review

  • 83
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    To explain a serial killer is to diminish his madness, but Dahmer does something quietly riveting. It lets you brush up against the humanity of a psycho, without making him any less psycho. Read full review

  • 80
    The Onion A.V. Club | Nathan Rabin

    Uses the serial killer's life as the starting point for a hypnotic examination of the farthest reaches of loneliness and alienation. Read full review

  • 80
    Village Voice |

    Jacobson has achieved the unthinkable: He humanizes a notoriously brutal psychopath and, in the process, leaves the audience with an unwelcome sense of complicity. Read full review

  • 70
    L.A. Weekly | Chuck Wilson

    The purest of horror films. Read full review

  • 67
    Austin Chronicle | Marc Savlov

    The whole of it plays like a dark and dreary tone poem, only marginally interested in explaining the ticking, bloody clockwork of the inner beast and only occasionally touching on his fractured humanity. Read full review

  • 60
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    As gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its title character, there remains a huge gap between the film's creepy, clean-cut Dahmer (Jeremy Renner) and fiendish acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    It succeeds, occasionally. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    Dahmer moves with a slowness that's meant to be compelling but is largely merely glum. This becomes a hindrance to building suspense in telling a true story whose outcome is already well known. Read full review

  • 25
    New York Daily News | Jami Bernard

    So lacking in insight and gravity that it makes Dahmer seem like a pesky, pasty-faced loser who just wasn't popular enough. Read full review

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