American Psycho USA - 104 minutes Friday, July 28 at 9:45PM Directed by Mary Harron. "American Psycho", a dazzling period satire, is a sleek, yuppie-era "Jekyll and Hyde". Director Mary Harron has boiled down Bret Easton Ellis's bloated stew of brand names and butchery into a lean and mean horror comedy classic. At the heart of the film is a star-making performance by the handsome Welsh actor Christian Bale (with a snooty pseudo-preppie American accent) that softens the novel's serial-killing Wall Street hot shot just enough to force us to identify with this narcissist. He makes us feel the underlying connections between his multiple personalities. The fluidity with which Mr. Bale moves from one state of mind to the other makes for a tour-de-force performance. In draining the novel's fat, Ms. Harron has strengthened and clarified Mr. Ellis's angry satire of the greed-is-good decade. This could be the last cinematic word on an embarrassingly gluttonous cultural moment that is all in the past. But is it? Preceded by the short film MUM New York Premiere USA - 7 Minutes. Directed by Nicholas Peterson. Produced by Nicholas Peterson. Animated by David J. Candelaria, Atom Films. A young girl decides her own destiny.