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From its opening, which portrays the aftermath of the action of its title, I Shot Andy Warhol is a frantically paced and at times gripping chronicle of the personal motivations, perceived slights and increasing anger at the oppressive male establishment of the solitary Solanas.

We see her as a lesbian feminist activist who slummed around Greenwich Village in the early '60s turning tricks to survive while peddling copies of her "S.C.U.M. (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto." Essentially, Solanas comes off as a born loser, but one with an irrepressible and often brilliant intellect. Her introduction to Warhol and his milieu is through her friend Candy Darling (Stephen Dorff).

Quite entertaining - in its own depressing way - it presents a most fascinating portrait of a woman who exemplified the phrase "a legend in her own mind." With a gritty streetwise demeanor, Taylor delivers rapid-fire speech at a relentless pace, and she's nothing short of first-rate. As Warhol, Jared Harris is an exquisite understatement of ethereal chic, and Dorff as Darling gives an amazingly transformative performance that will amaze.