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5 Bret Easton Ellis adaptations, ranked from worst to best

Bret Easton Ellis’ books seem perfect for the screen, but there’s an art to translating books like The Shards and American Psycho. Which adaptations worked – or didn’t?

  • The Informers (2008) fails to capture Ellis' eerie weightlessness
  • Less Than Zero (1987) sanitizes Ellis' darkest material
  • The Rules of Attraction (2002) faithfully adapts novel's fragmentation

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