Mary Harron's 2000 film "American Psycho," based on the book by Bret Easton Ellis, is a twofold satire. On one level, both Harron and Ellis sought to deconstruct and dismantle the vapid, well-moneyed, utterly amoral world of empty-hearted, wealth-obsessed 1980s yuppie Reaganauts. And on the next, Harron added a sizable takedown of maledom's pitiful macho bluster to the text. Harron and her co-screenwriter Guinevere Turner can be credited for turning Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) from a...