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Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

2004

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Generally favorable reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews

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Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

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Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment | Release Date: January 9, 2004 | R

Starring: Aileen Wuornos, Nick Broomfield

Summary: This documentary provides an insight into the mind of Aileen Wournos (whose story is the basis for the feature film "Monster"), a deeply paranoid yet sympathetic person who lost her mind and killed seven people. (Nick Broomfield)

Director: Joan Churchill and Nick Broomfield

Genre(s): Crime, Documentary

Rating: R

Runtime: 90 min

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100

Christian Science Monitor

David Sterritt

In addition to its own merits as a social and cultural document, Broomfield's film continues the welcome trend of more and more nonfiction movies finding their way to theater screens and attracting wide general audiences. Read full review

88

Chicago Sun-Times

Roger Ebert

No one should have to endure the life that Aileen Wuornos led, and we leave the movie believing that if someone, somehow, had been able to help that little girl, her seven victims would never have died. Read full review

80

Los Angeles Times

Manohla Dargis

She was guilty, no doubt, but as this immensely moving film makes clear, Aileen Wuornos was also heartbreakingly human. Read full review

75

Boston Globe

Wesley Morris

Aileen is Broomfield working compassionately. Perhaps it's only because he knows he can't save Wuornos that he can offer her as she might have been: part wounded animal, part self-destructive martyr, and all tragedy. Read full review

75

San Francisco Chronicle

Carla Meyer

Sometimes demure, sometimes funny and other times flat-out crazed, Wuornos was effusive and confrontational when Broomfield filmed her just before her 2002 execution in Florida. Read full review

70

The New York Times

Stephen Holden

Presents itself as an anguished brief against capital punishment, especially the execution of people who are legally insane...But the timing of its release smacks of the very exploitation that Mr. Bloomfield condemns. Read full review

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TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

Broomfield's film is typically self-aggrandizing but filled with unsettling moments. Read full review

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