Satire is often inextricably tied to the era it exists in. Heathers is so ‘80s, its sick and twisted take on John Hughes movies could only work then. Idiocracy is supposedly set in the future, but everything in it drips with mid-2000s iconography. But right on the verge of the millennium, one movie tackled the then-common “yuppie” stereotype with a pitch-perfect satire that feels as cold and sterile as its main character, while also being intensely watchable: American Psycho.
Now streaming on Hulu (or on Disney+ with a Hulu add-on), director Mary Harron’s razor-sharp thriller is so timeless, even 25 years later, it hits just as hard.
