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- Occasionally unbalanced but never unfocused, The Jeffrey Dahmer Files is sprawling but terse; the lynchpin to its success is Thompson’s adroit editing, which blends ostensibly incongruous elements to coax a lucid portrait of a man who didn’t always possess mental clarity.
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Feb 15, 2013 · Chris James Thompson’s documentary uses restraint to explore about the skin-crawling crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer from three wildly different — yet equally intimate — perspectives.
- Chris James Thompson
Feb 12, 2013 · Building on the clinical and essential details of Dahmer’s clandestine life and grisly actions, director Chris James Thompson focuses on minutia without becoming myopic. Incorporating elements of talking-head confessionals, fictionalized reenactments, and archival footage, he approaches the material by carefully deconstructing Dahmer’s ...
Feb 21, 2013 · Mesmerizing and haunting, “The Jeffrey Dahmer Files” is an inside-out serial killer movie, lacking in gore or cheap psychology and made in part for those who think they never want to see...
- mark.olsen@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
Feb 12, 2013 · Made with a fixation on details that begins to feel creepy, Chris James Thompson’s partially staged documentary has the unwitting effect of creating a hipster icon out of a monster: Check out ...
Feb 14, 2013 · The definitive Jeffrey Dahmer documentary is out there, but this isn’t it. Jeffrey Dahmer was an American serial killer who operated in Milwaukee in the late ’80s and early ’90s, eventually...
Feb 15, 2013 · With suitably grainy 16 mm reenacted footage, and startling candid interviews from the people that were closest to the case, The Jeffrey Dahmer Files is a hybrid doc that delves into the affect of a serial killer on the community he was a part of while showing just how exceedingly normal he was to those around him.
Feb 15, 2013 · Teasing out a subversive portrait of a complex and rather subdued monster, The Jeffrey Dahmer Files unfolds with the same meticulousness exemplified by the eponymous serial killer. Read More FULL REVIEW
