It’s a movie based on a novel by Bret Easton Ellis about a destructive young psychopath named Bateman. The movie’s leading man, a well-regarded former child actor now in his mid-twenties, is playing against type, meaning the movie gives him the opportunity to establish himself as a versatile, bankable movie star. Upon premiering, however, the film receives a response that ranges from tepid to hostile. Movie fans and serial killer aficionados alike may recognize that as a description of the 2000