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L.a Confidential
1950';s Los Angeles is the seedy backdrop for this intricate noir-ish tale of police corruption and Hollywood sleaze. Three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy, use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner in this lush tribute to tough film noir crime films.
26 September 1952, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
20 May 1958, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
29 August 1954, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2 February 1938, Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
20 May 1965, Milan, Lombardy, Italy
26 January 1949, San Francisco, California, USA
28 April 1949, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
18 August 1959, Chicago, Illinois, USA
11 April 1973, Westchester, New York, USA
27 January 1940, Los Angeles, California, USA
June 04, 2014
While not reaching the twisted heights of the superbly sinister Chinatown, L.A. Confidential is smart, complex and engrossing.
June 04, 2014
The result is a powerful work of art. Seldom has a study of sleaze said more about what makes us all tick.
June 04, 2014
L.A. Confidential is a satisfyingly plotted film with echoes of the 1974 classic Chinatown.
June 04, 2014
The story is so complicated that the movie can't quite make it clear, but the picture has impressive energy and high-intensity performances from Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito, and Guy Pearce.
June 04, 2014
It doesn't let up for a second, cramming James Ellroy's sprawling novel into a mere 98 minutes. That's both good and bad. The good? It's an exhilarating, breakneck ride. The bad? It's over far too soon.
June 04, 2014
L.A. Confidential isn't quite up there with Chinatown, but it's the closest thing to come down the Santa Monica Freeway in the last 23 years.
June 04, 2014
Like Chinatown before it, this twisted and twisting tale of cops, crime, corruption and hangers-on in 1950s Los Angeles artfully evokes the flip side of the City of Dreams.
June 04, 2014
L.A. Confidential is a movie bull's-eye: noir with an attitude, a thriller packing punches. It gives up its evil secrets with a smile.
June 04, 2014
Hanson has made the film noir setting virtually another starring character.
June 04, 2014
Spicy and boiling-hot, this sensational early-'50s crime drama is a morality play disguised as pulp fiction -- a sprawling saga of corruption and redemption set against a flashy West Coast backdrop.
June 04, 2014
At the center of the movie are three mismatched cops with separately fueled ambitions, ferociously played by Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce. Their combined charisma almost smashes through the screen.
June 04, 2014
There are so many things to enjoy here. Director Curtis Hanson... keeps a complex story coherent and absorbing -- if bloody at the end.
