My Friend Dahmer remakes a serial killer into a sympathetic outcast

A chilling trip to high school with future serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Well made, but told too much from Dahmer’s perspective.

★★★☆☆ “What do you want to be when you grow up?” A common question to pose to a group of teens approaching the end...

The early years of the notorious serial killer are chronicled in Marc Meyers' film. Read the Empire review.

My Friend Dahmer doesn't offer much beyond the obvious: EW review

A portrait of the serial killer as a weird young man

Ross Lynch portrays the teenage Jeffrey Dahmer, before his notoriety as a serial killer, in 'My Friend Dahmer,' an adaptation of a graphic novel that also st...

 What is most surprising about it is how sympathetic it is towards the future killer

Review: This biopic reminds us what a terrifying place American high school can be

The early years of the man dubbed the ‘Milwaukee Cannibal’ make for a compelling character study.

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The story of the making of a monster.

An excellent and disturbing look at the youth of a serial killer.

The Ohio high school’s class trip to Washington, D.C. was a bit of a bust. Until, that is, one classmate had the chutzpah to get on a pay phone, make a cal...

'My Friend Dahmer' rewinds to the cannibalistic serial killer's awkward teenage years – and leaves viewers on the outside looking in. Our review.

Director Marc Meyers has a breakout hit on his hands with this graphic memoir-based drama about the serial killer's early years, starring Ross Lynch

Ross Lynch made his name playing Austin in the Disney TV show Austin & Ally and he has 4.8 million followers on Instagram. But as Lynch admits, being a shiny...

When someone kills seventeen people over a thirteen-year span with words like necrophilia and cannibalism circling each murder, sympathy for the predator —...

Film focuses on Dahmer as a high-school student, asking whether he was born sick or if his environment made him that way

★★★★☆With the memory of Lars von Trier’s serial-killer film, The House that Jack Built, still painfully fresh from Cannes, this portrait of a tee...

An adaptation of a graphic novel about a famous serial killer, starring the lead singer of a boy band — sign me up!

Disney alum Ross Lynch plays teenage "Jeff" Dahmer in a movie that fails to explicate his later crimes

Ross Lynch gives a thoughtful performance in this serial-killer origin story.

Ross Lynch plays Jeffrey Dahmer in his senior year of high school in a drama that's authentic enough to get under your skin.

Marc Meyers humanizes Jeffrey Dahmer without minimizing his monstrousness — or his mystery.