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Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
Directed by
Joan Churchill
and
Nick Broomfield
R
2003
1h 32m
Documentary
,
Crime
7.1
85%
74%
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Nick Broomfield's second documentary about serial killer Aileen Wuornos, focusing on her mental state on death row.
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Cast of Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
Aileen Wuornos
Self
Nick Broomfield
Self
Diane Wuornos
Self
Arlene Pralle
Self (archive footage)
Tyria Moore
Self (archive footage)
Dawn Botkins
Self
Michelle Chauvin
Self
Dick Mills
Self (archive footage)
Dennis Allen
Self
Jeb Bush
Self (archive footage)
Joe Hobson
Self (archive footage)
Steve Glazer
Self
Danny Caldwell
Self
Jerry Moss
Self
Brian Jarvis
Self
Sterling Ivey
Self
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer Ratings & Reviews
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The film stands quite chillingly as a final statement from a woman trying to fight her own commodification.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
A haunting exploration of a ruined and wasted life.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
[T]his movie literally gave me the chills.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Engrossing, educational, amusing and disturbing.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Provides an opportunity to study one of history's supposed anomalies: a female serial killer.
Denver Post
Michael Booth
Broomfield is too fond of himself by half, and tilts the movie too much toward his personal objections to the death penalty.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
A valuable and insightful contribution to the mountain of Aileen Wuornos speculation and documentation.
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
Her intense denial is fascinating, and extremely sad, to watch.
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.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Digs into the soul of this abused child, who never got the treatment she needed. Her eyes, radiating madness, will haunt your dreams.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Though one can question the movie's quality as a documentary ... Aileen raises such troubling issues that it stays, hellishly, in your mind.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
It's a far more gripping documentary than Broomfield's 1992 Wuornos film.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
The filmmaker's ego and ethics aside, there's no denying the power of Wuornos' behavior here.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
The director ... makes a compelling argument that Wuornos never got a fair deal from the legal system and that she should have been spared death because of insanity.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Nick Broomfield's documentary, which chronicles the events that led up to the execution of Aileen Wuornos, is an absorbing film, partly because its subject exudes a scary charisma.
Los Angeles Times
Manohla Dargis
She was guilty, no doubt, but as this immensely moving film makes clear, Aileen Wuornos was also heartbreakingly human.
Newsday
John Anderson
Might have been a good film, except that Broomfield had the inside track. His films are, ultimately, always about the making of his films.
L.A. Weekly
Ella Taylor
An eloquent case against the death penalty, especially when imposed on the mentally incompetent.
Slate
David Edelstein
Illuminates Wuornos' tragedy and eats into your mind.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
The only reality here is that truth is slippery, and that's something Broomfield understands more than most documentary filmmakers working today.
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