Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

The title of Joe Berlinger's "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile" comes from the famous post-sentencing remarks of Judge Edward Cowart to Ted Bundy, America's most notorious (to this day) serial killer.

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Zac Efron slips into Ted Bundy's skin for Extremely Wicked, Shocking Evil and Vile

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Zac Efron plays serial killer Ted Bundy and Lily Collins a single Seattle mother he seduces in Joe Berlinger's film.

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Zac Efron slips into Ted Bundy's skin for Extremely Wicked, Shocking Evil and Vile

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Zac Efron plays serial killer Ted Bundy and Lily Collins a single Seattle mother he seduces in Joe Berlinger's film.

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As an oddity of the serial killer genre, some of Berlinger’s choices ring more as engagingly strange than unsuccessful, such as a number of 1970s music cues cut with Bundy’s antics.

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Zac Efron's Ted Bundy movie is an interesting, ambitious misfire

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Sundance 2019: Efron’s performance bolsters this look at the handsome young man whose murders shocked a nation

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As an oddity of the serial killer genre, some of Berlinger’s choices ring more as engagingly strange than unsuccessful, such as a number of 1970s music cues cut with Bundy’s antics.

2159d ago

Zac Efron's Ted Bundy movie is an interesting, ambitious misfire

2159d ago

Sundance 2019: Efron’s performance bolsters this look at the handsome young man whose murders shocked a nation

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In 1970s Seattle, Liz Kloepfer (Lily Collins) is a single mum, who thinks she’s found the man of her dreams on a night out. That man, Ted Bundy (Zac Efron), turns out to be America’s most notorious serial killer.

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Extremely Wicked wobbles between its two best, but unfortunately, contrasting features: Efron’s eerily seductive performance, and the psychological experience of loving a camouflaged monster.

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Extremely Wicked wobbles between its two best, but unfortunately, contrasting features: Efron’s eerily seductive performance, and the psychological experience of loving a camouflaged monster.

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In 1970s Seattle, Liz Kloepfer (Lily Collins) is a single mum, who thinks she’s found the man of her dreams on a night out. That man, Ted Bundy (Zac Efron), turns out to be America’s most notorious serial killer.

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The star’s charismatic and creepy performance as the notorious serial killer is the best thing about an otherwise pedestrian and graceless drama

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The star’s charismatic and creepy performance as the notorious serial killer is the best thing about an otherwise pedestrian and graceless drama

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By the time ‘Extremely Wicked’ ends and has the audacity to puts its many female victim’s names on the screen, silently and somberly, trying its best to cast itself as some kind of concerned ally and not the fraud that it is, you’ve felt insulted and cheated enough.

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Despite Zac Efron’s performance, the film’s humorous take on a serial killer as a rock star doesn't really work.

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Despite Zac Efron’s performance, the film’s humorous take on a serial killer as a rock star doesn't really work.

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By the time ‘Extremely Wicked’ ends and has the audacity to puts its many female victim’s names on the screen, silently and somberly, trying its best to cast itself as some kind of concerned ally and not the fraud that it is, you’ve felt insulted and cheated enough.

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Blame director Joe Berlinger for not finding a way to portray the serial killer’s ghastly side in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

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Blame director Joe Berlinger for not finding a way to portray the serial killer’s ghastly side in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

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Working ostensibly from the viewpoint of Bundy’s longtime girlfriend, Liz Kendall (an excellent Lily Collins), [Director] Berlinger never fully commits. Instead, he appears as seduced by Bundy as virtually everyone else in the movie.

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Zac Efron's killer charm can't save this misguided Ted Bundy biopic

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Efron’s casting in the real-life story of Ted Bundy, executed for the murder of 30 women, is startling but the film shies away from awkward questions

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Zac Efron's killer charm can't save this misguided Ted Bundy biopic

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Working ostensibly from the viewpoint of Bundy’s longtime girlfriend, Liz Kendall (an excellent Lily Collins), [Director] Berlinger never fully commits. Instead, he appears as seduced by Bundy as virtually everyone else in the movie.

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Efron’s casting in the real-life story of Ted Bundy, executed for the murder of 30 women, is startling but the film shies away from awkward questions

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The film essentially indulges in the same act of willful distractedness as Ted Bundy’s admirers.

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The film essentially indulges in the same act of willful distractedness as Ted Bundy’s admirers.

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