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And its pigtailed protagonist — to many, as recognizable and beloved a horror villain as Freddie Krueger or Jason Voorhees — is little Rhoda, whose mother (Nancy Kelly) discovers over the course of the film is actually a murderous sociopath.
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Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
And are financial managers actually all sociopaths?
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Oct. 2025
Yet those setbacks feel minor compared to everything that Tatum is bringing to the party in terms of humanizing someone who might have come off as a sociopath on the page.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
But the rest of the movie is straight-faced, as though its story of two reckless sociopaths vying to destroy the world in their respective modes weren’t appallingly depressing.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025
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Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
And are financial managers actually all sociopaths?
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Oct. 2025
Yet those setbacks feel minor compared to everything that Tatum is bringing to the party in terms of humanizing someone who might have come off as a sociopath on the page.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
But the rest of the movie is straight-faced, as though its story of two reckless sociopaths vying to destroy the world in their respective modes weren’t appallingly depressing.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025
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“Sociopath.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sociopath. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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sociopath
noun
so·cio·path
ˈsō-sē-ə-ˌpath 
ˈsō-sh(ē-)ə-
ˈsō-sh(ē-)ə-
: a sociopathic individual
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