Featuring a solid performance by Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman, American Psycho is an outstanding satire that focuses on the mindless consumerism and moral bankruptcy of the '80s. The main character is a young yuppie stockbroker who doubles as a serial killer. I never read Bret Easton Ellis' controversial novel but I assume that his bestseller was completely misunderstood by the American public, most of whom have never been able to understand the old Swiftian sense of humor, anyway. Some of my favorite scenes involve Bateman dissecting the banal music hits of the '80s; he even butchers a fellow broker in his luxurious apartment to the strains of "Hip to be Square" by none other than Huey Lewis and the News.