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L.A. Confidential (1997) Rank 3 Reviews
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Baltimore City Paper (Luisa F. Ribeiro)
San Francisco Examiner (Barbara Shulgasser)
CURTIS HANSON has captured the flinty, sweaty days of post-World War II Los Angeles in his slick policier,
"L.A. Confidential." He has the molls, the cynicism and the corruption of a Bogart movie; in fact, "The Big Sleep" and "The Maltese Falcon" echo ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at San Francisco Examiner (Barbara Shulgasser)
San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
This is the story of a movie. About crime and violence. Corruption. And loyalties that shift like sand in a windstorm. It's about a city called Los Angeles, and a time, the early 1950s. This is about one of the best crime dramas in years.
``L.A. ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
This is the story of a movie. About crime and violence. Corruption. And loyalties that shift like sand in a windstorm. It's about a city called Los Angeles, and a time, the early 1950s. This is a story about one of the best crime dramas to come along in ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
whipping James Ellroy's seminal novel of 1950s Los Angeles police corruption and noir sexuality into recognizable shape for this distinguished film adaptation. Ellroy's original manuscript fell under the heading of “epic.” With over 100 distinct ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
Scott Renshaw
Early though it may be to make such a prediction, I'm going to do so: no one will be more deserving of an Adapted Screenplay Oscar in 1997 than Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson. James Ellroy's 1990 novel "L.A. Confidential" was 496 pages of sprawling, ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Scott Renshaw
Washington Post (Stephen Hunter)
Hanson delivers something ever rarer in film culture, not a new film noir but an old-fashioned total movie, somehow of a single piece. ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Washington Post (Stephen Hunter)
Time (Richard Schickel)
A movie of shadows and half lights, the best approximation of the old black-and-white noir look anyone has yet managed on color stock. ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Time (Richard Schickel)
Slate (David Edelstein)
That rare mainstream cop thriller that refuses to telegraph its outcome in the first 15 minutes or, for much of its running time, to tell you how to feel about its protagonists. ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Slate (David Edelstein)
Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
Based on James Ellroy's novel, LA Confidential is a modern noirish tale of how police corruption and the flourishing of organized crime go hand in hand, as well as how public decisions are dictated by public image, strange bedfellows, and the allure of th ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
Film Values/Family Values (H. Arthur Taussig)
DVDnett.no
L.A. Confidential bygger på en roman med samme navn av James Ellroy. Romanen igjen bygger på en hendelse fra 1951 som har fått navnet "Bloody Christmas". Curtis Hanson (The River Wild, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle) har regissert filmen, som ble ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at DVDnett.no
Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
Full of period locations, costumes, and one very clever Lana Turner gag, it's easy to see why Ellroy is so pleased with the film. ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
THE WEEKLY MOVIE REVIEW
It’s a real shame because this had potential. And while there were some good moments, the dumb ones were just too bad and too frequent. For example, the police corruption aspect in this film is so overdone and cliché that you find yourself saying ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at THE WEEKLY MOVIE REVIEW
DVD Authority.com (Chad Estrella)
This is a classic cop film mystery that is based on the James Elroy novel by the same name. The movie is about the Los Angeles police department in the Hollywood glamour days of the 50's and how the department wants to keep organized crime out of the ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at DVD Authority.com (Chad Estrella)
Wolfpack Productions (Sujit 'Chief' Chawla)
This is what a real movie should look like. It should have a story (although a somewhat confusing one) and it should have real actors. No need for a lot of special effects or big explosions or big-named expensive actors to drive the film, just a good, ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Wolfpack Productions (Sujit 'Chief' Chawla)
kids-in-mind.com
A man beats up a woman, and a man is beaten up by a man. Police officers beat up prisoners/suspects in some scenes. There's shoving, throwing people around, punching etc., with a bit of blood and sometimes the victims are bound and sometimes you can hear ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at kids-in-mind.com
TheBoxSet.com - Complete Movie/DVD Review
released (1997), L.A. Confidential is a fascinating story about corruption and greed in the ranks of the Los Angeles police department in the 1950's. With an intricate plot involving a multitude of characters and a suspicious multiple murder, this movie ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at TheBoxSet.com - Complete Movie/DVD Review
David N. Butterworth
It's the early 1950s and the lure of Tinseltown brings the hapless and the hopeful to the City of Angels. Maybe to make it as a Hollywood movie star. Or maybe just to see one.
But beneath the glitz and the glamour and the celebrity lies a dark and ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at David N. Butterworth
Palo Alto Weekly (Leonard Schwarz)
Jason Overbeck
This is the best film of the year. If TITANIC (****) wins Best Picture at the Oscars it will be a tragedy the size of FORREST GUMP (***) over PULP FICTION (****). The sad fact is that TITANIC will win. Nothing against TITANIC which is one of the best ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Jason Overbeck
Steve Rhodes
A bespectacled Ed, who is forever getting into trouble because his fellow officers convince him that real cops don't wear glasses, is played by Guy Pearce from the Australian hit comedy THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT. The director ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Steve Rhodes
Reviews and Reflections
L.A. Confidential starts as an exposé, told by scandal magazine columnist Sid Hudgeons. It's stylized, and also stylish, to the point of being a gently funny self-parody. It's so determinedly immersed in 50's Los Angeles that we're always partly ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Reviews and Reflections
Filmtracks (Christian Clemmensen)
Goldsmith
L.A. Confidential: (Jerry Goldsmith) This film has been an enormous success with the critics in the last few months of 1997, and with that critical success has come some good recognition for Goldsmith. Director Curtis Hanson had already ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Filmtracks (Christian Clemmensen)
Detroit News (Susan Stark)
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San Francisco Examiner (G. Allen Johnson)
"The Big Sleep" and "The Maltese Falcon" echo loudly throughout. ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at San Francisco Examiner (G. Allen Johnson)
Baltimore Sun (Ann Hornaday)
A glamorous, alluring entertainment that revels in the artifice of Hollywood while exposing its corrupt heart, L.A. Confidential pays stylish homage to some of the great film noirs of the distant and recent past. ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Baltimore Sun (Ann Hornaday)
The Onion A.V. Club (John Krewson)
as crime classics like Chinatown, L.A. Confidential is a considerable and important step in a different and more human direction. James Ellroy's mammoth, improbably complex novel of early-1950s crime, police work, and politics couldn't have been easy ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at The Onion A.V. Club (John Krewson)
Palo Alto Online (Leonard Schwarz)
A meditation on good and evil that glows with the vitality of pulp fiction and the intelligence of good writing, "L.A. Confidential" is a great American movie, a hard-boiled cops and crime story that is at once viscerally entertaining and intellectually ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Palo Alto Online (Leonard Schwarz)
filethirteen.com
But this great cast can't overcome Hanson's fatal error in casting look-alikes Kevin Spacey and Russell Crowe in the film. I was almost two hours into the movie before I snapped that Crowe wasn't Spacey. No amount of exposition or well- crafted scripting ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at filethirteen.com
IndependentCritics.com (Jacob Hall)
In the wake of "Titanic," "L.A. Confidential" seemed like a small film. After all, how could a small film about cops measure up to the massive epic that was James Cameron's "masterpiece"? Everyone forgot about "L.A. Confidential" at the Oscars. Everyone ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at IndependentCritics.com (Jacob Hall)
Teen Movie Critic (Vivian Rose)
If L.A. Confidential had stopped after the first hour - the only part of the movie that held my attention- it would have been enjoyable. After that, it just got too lengthy and complicated so monotony quickly set in.
Ed Exley (Guy Pierce) is a do-good ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Teen Movie Critic (Vivian Rose)
Sleep Deprivation Institute
One of the best stories I have seen on the screen in a long time. And a refreshing change of pace from all of the crapola we've been given this year. Despite considering myself a movie geek of the second degree--Hanson, Crowe, Pearce--who are ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Sleep Deprivation Institute
DVD Review e-zine
L.A. Confidential bygger på en roman med samme navn av James Ellroy. Romanen igjen bygger på en hendelse fra 1951 som har fått navnet "Bloody Christmas". Curtis Hanson (The River Wild, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle) har regissert filmen, som ble ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at DVD Review e-zine
The Stop Button (Andrew Wickliffe)
I haven’t seen L.A. Confidential since 1998 or so, whenever the laserdisc came out. Before the film came out--I saw it in the theaters of course, being a big Russell Crowe fan back then--I read James Ellroy’s book. So, obviously, the film cuts a lot ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at The Stop Button (Andrew Wickliffe)
Needcoffee.com
One of the best stories I have seen on the screen in a long time. And a refreshing change of pace from all of the crapola we've been given this year. Despite considering myself a movie geek of the second degree--Hanson, Crowe, Pearce--who are these ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Needcoffee.com
Sun Newspapers of Cleveland
If there really is such a thing as the best film of 1997, right now the title belongs to Curtis Hanson's "L.A. Confidential," the rip-roaring -- and apparently condensed -- adaptation of the gritty, noir-ish James Ellroy novel.
Hanson, who co-wrote ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Sun Newspapers of Cleveland
MovieFreak.com (Rachel Sexton)
The Aisle Seat (Mike McGranaghan)
Set in 1950's Hollywood, L.A. Confidential tells the story of three very different cops on the LAPD. Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey) is a cool cop who also serves as technical advisor for a Dragnet-style TV show called Badge of Honor. The fame that comes ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at The Aisle Seat (Mike McGranaghan)
Ain't It Cool Movie Reviews (Harry Knowles)
Montreal Film Journal (Kevin N. Laforest)
L.A. Confidential" is the closest thing to a classic cop movie you could imagine, a throwback to a few decades ago. I mean, these days, movies seem more fond of gangsters. The only cop movies we see are big action comedies à la "Lethal Weapon". Maybe ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Montreal Film Journal (Kevin N. Laforest)
James Bowman
Anyone who may still be treasuring fond memories of the 1950s has got to have a hard time of it in coming up against the tendency of late 20th century culture—which seems to be obsessed with the notion that that decade was a horrible time in ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at James Bowman
Christian Spotlight on the Movies
L.A. Confidential is an interesting police drama about three different police officers with three unique styles of law enforcement, all trying to solve a murder case while uncovering plenty of corruption in their 1950s Los Angeles Police Department. The ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Christian Spotlight on the Movies
DVD MovieGuide
Academy Awards: Winner of Best Supporting Actress-Kim Basinger, Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium-Curtis Hanson, Brian Helgeland. Nominated for Best Picture-Curtis Hanson, Arnon Milchan, Michael G. Nathanson, Best Director-Curtis ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at DVD MovieGuide
The Magic of the Movies (Alex Christensen)
At-A-Glance Film Reviews
Film noir is not easy to do, especially in the modern age where color photography is a severe handicap. But to my utmost delight, I discovered that L.A. Confidential was nothing short of brilliant. This is the best film noir made in the modern day that ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at At-A-Glance Film Reviews
The DVD Report (Britt Gillette)
Winner of two Academy Awards, and nominated for seven others, LA Confidential was the surprise thriller of 1997. Prior to American Beauty and Gladiator, Kevin Spacey and Russell Crowe starred in this seedy crime and suspense film, one of the best of the ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at The DVD Report (Britt Gillette)
Film Scouts (David Sterritt)
"L.A. Confidential" is a competently made genre piece that broke no fresh ground but offered the simple pleasures of commercial American cinema in reasonably lively form, complete with capable acting and the kind of zippy editing that non-Hollywood ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Film Scouts (David Sterritt)
Salon (Dwight Garner)
A movie that refuses to kick into gear until it's far too late. ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Salon (Dwight Garner)
Movie-Vault.com (Aaron Graham)
In one of my favorite genres, film noir, director Curtis Hanson takes us into the dark streets of Los Angeles in a film that's worthy in the same breath as Chinatown. It was written by Hanson and Brian Helgeland from the novel by master noirist James ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Movie-Vault.com (Aaron Graham)
Movie Review Index - Reviews from Top Critics
Dr. Daniel's Movie Emergency
Okay, here's the deal. I want you to take a good look out your window right now. What do you see? Well, as I'm writing this, it is the first day of fall. It's still kinda hot down here, but you can smell it in the air. My sniffer can hear fall a mile ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Dr. Daniel's Movie Emergency
artechock (Borissa Hellmann)
Kim Basinger spielt Lynn, eine Edelprostituierte, die als lebende Kopie des Filmstars Veronica Lake ihre Freier erleichtert. Russell Crowe ist White, der etwas dumpfe Cop aus L.A.
Aber es geht um viel mehr, als nur um die beiden. Im L.A. der 50er Jahre ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at artechock (Borissa Hellmann)
Advocate/Weekly Newspapers Online
Light Views, Reviews & Previews (John Larsen)
Like Roman Polanski's "Chinatown," "L.A. Confidential" perfectly evokes a time and place. An engaging crime drama about corrupt cops set in the 1950's, "L.A. Confidential" transports us to another era bathed in exquisite period detail. Director Curtis ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Light Views, Reviews & Previews (John Larsen)
Mr. Cranky
This film is about three cops in 1950's L.A. and a mysterious murder investigation that brings them together. When Bud White's (Russell Crowe) partner is killed at the Night Owl diner along with a bunch of other people, it appears to be a typical ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Mr. Cranky
Cinema Laser (Derek M. Germano)
L.A. CONFIDENTIAL is tightly directed by Curtis Hanson and features rich performances from its marvelous ensemble cast. Kevin Spacey is slick and smooth as detective Jack Vincennes, a man who has been seduced by the glamour of Hollywood and living for ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Cinema Laser (Derek M. Germano)
Salon (Max Garrone)
You want backroom deals, civic corruption and wanton police violence? "L.A. Confidential" delivers them in spades. Adapted from James Ellroy's wicked take on Los Angeles' history, it's also informed by the kind of Angeleno apocalypse Mike Davis brought ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Salon (Max Garrone)
Harvey's Movie Review (Harvey O'Brien)
Highly praised detective thriller worthy of note for its good performances, general seriousness and success in rendering a complex plot in a comprehensible form, but not among the greatest masterpieces of Hollywood cinema, as many would have you believe. ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Harvey's Movie Review (Harvey O'Brien)
Screen It! Entertainment Reviews for Parents
In 1950's Los Angeles, three police officers have their own distinctive style of dealing with their jobs. Jack Vincennes (KEVIN SPACEY) is a cop on the take from a tabloid owner/reporter, Sid Hudgeons (DANNY DEVITO), whose magazine "Hush Hush" ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Screen It! Entertainment Reviews for Parents
allesfilm.com (Markus Steiger)
Los Angeles in den 50ern. Ed Exley (Guy Pearce) ist neu beim LAPD. Er trägt eine Brille und wirkt wie ein streberischer Schleimer, der extrem korrekt ist und alles richtig machen will. Erste Probleme bekommt er mit dieser Einstellung, als er Kollegen ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at allesfilm.com (Markus Steiger)
In Film Australia
Basically this film is a two-hour Yankee version of Blue Heelers with the cops trying to hunt down the robbers and murderers. Though this film possesses an added edge, mainly as it is heavily involved with Hollywood gossip and actors. Danny DeVito plays ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at In Film Australia
Houston Chronicle
I know, I know, I'm on the record on this: I'm not supposed to like movies about other movies.
But L.A. Confidential is just so juicy that's there's plenty of liquid to help me swallow my principles.
The people who made this are so much like kids ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Houston Chronicle
The Cranky Critic (Chuck Schwartz)
A crime-drama, LA Confidential is adapted from the novel by James Ellroy. As always, Cranky makes no comparison with the source material -- but it must've been a hell of a book 'cuz it's a hell of a film.
From the title sequence on down, in which the ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at The Cranky Critic (Chuck Schwartz)
Film Scouts (Cari Beauchamp)
"L.A. Confidential" is one of the few major studio films in competition this year -- and that brings back all the historic ramifications of the Hollywood - France love-hate relationships. The studios hestitate to risk a big negative buzz from ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Film Scouts (Cari Beauchamp)
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Films on Disc (Stuart J. Kobak)
Let's not mince words here. L.A. Confidential was unquestionably the best picture of 1997, hands down. At least the screenplay adaptation by director Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland received the Academy Award. From the dense James Ellroy novel, the ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Films on Disc (Stuart J. Kobak)
Teen Movie Critic (Mandy Heiser)
A tale of corrupt cops in the glamor of Hollywood....when Hollywood was glamorous, that is. Set in the 1950's, L.A. Confidential follows three cops (Kevin Spacey, Russel Crowe and Guy Pearce) investigating a massacre at a local cafe. It starts with just ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Teen Movie Critic (Mandy Heiser)
The Flying Inkpot (Jack Choo)
Based on the book by author James Ellroy, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL is probably one of the best pieces of work produced by Hollywood in recent years. Together with director Curtis Hanson (THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE, THE RIVER WILD) with whom Ellroy ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at The Flying Inkpot (Jack Choo)
Time Out
Dime store detective stories have inspired more great movies than Dostoevsky ever will, but local-boy-made-bad James Ellroy always seemed too tough a proposition for Hollywood to take on. Hanson's adaptation of Ellroy's most complex novel is a towering ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Time Out
Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
Fascinated by the spectacle of fallible men and fallen women trapped in a corrupt and heartless world that's too cold to care, filmmakers in every generation have never stopped reinventing film noir. From 1940s classics like "Out of the Past" (1947) ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
DVD Verdict (Nicholas Sylvain)
Evoking in immense detail the look and spirit of Los Angeles and Hollywood in the early 1950s, with a stunningly talented acting ensemble and a compelling story, L.A. Confidential is an absolutely reference quality film noir and a DVD that still sets a ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at DVD Verdict (Nicholas Sylvain)
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
If Quentin Tarantino had directed "Chinatown," it might look and sound quite a bit like "L.A. Confidential."
Make no mistake. Despite its setting — 1950s Los Angeles and, in particular, the seamy underbelly of Hollywood — this is definitely ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
L.A. Confidential is a big, long movie, full of great costumes and sets. You could call it a huge epic, but it's also a scrappy movie, full of energy as well as style. The movie gets to us through three fully-rounded characters that, in a lesser movie, ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
Memphis Flyer (Hadley Hury)
Cinopsis
Los Angeles pendant les années cinquante. Ville de lumières et de paillettes transportée par le succès de Hollywood et de la télévision. Mais aussi ville obscure, pourrie par le crime, la prostitution, le chantage et la corruption. Alors que le ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Cinopsis
World Socialist Web Site
James Ellroy's crime novel, L.A. Confidential (1990), is a fast-paced and self-consciously raw work about Los Angeles in the 1950s. The book deals with the efforts by a number of Los Angeles policemen, over the course of five years or so, to solve a mass ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at World Socialist Web Site
Spirituality & Health (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
Here is an engrossing character-driven drama set in Hollywood during the 1950s. Curtis Hanson's screen adaptation of James Ellroy's densely plotted novel is richly atmospheric, beautifully acted, and well directed. Better than any other recent film this ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Spirituality & Health (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
Anchorage Press (Lucian Childs)
Hanson and co-screenwriter Brian Helgeland (“Conspiracy Theory”) have managed the daunting task of distilling Ellroy's Byzantine story of police corruption and gangland vice into an intelligible whole. The characters are what you would expect of the ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Anchorage Press (Lucian Childs)
Reeling Reviews (Robin and Laura Clifford)
L.A. Confidential," co-scripted and directed by Curtis Hanson ("The River Wild," "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle"), is adapted from the complex crime novel by James Ellroy. Based in 1950's Los Angeles, the story deals with corruption in paradise as seen ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Reeling Reviews (Robin and Laura Clifford)
Edinburgh U Film Society (Keith Thomson)
The term "modern classic" is religiously used in today's cinema vocabulary, but it is rarely justified. LA Confidential is certainly an exception.
Curtis Hanson's take on James Ellroy's complex noir novel of police corruption and a series of ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Edinburgh U Film Society (Keith Thomson)
culturevulture.net, Choices for the Cognoscenti
Remember, dear readers, you heard it here first. Off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush.
So says Sid Hudgeons (Danny DeVito), publisher and writer of the L.A. sleaze magazine, Hush Hush, a weekly rag that rats on the stars, politicians, and ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at culturevulture.net, Choices for the Cognoscenti
Images (Gary Johnson)
I was a little leery about L.A. Confidential. Director Curtis Hanson's career has been littered with mediocre movies, from the box-office hit Hand That Rocked the Cradle to the Meryl Streep action thriller The River Wild. But nothing had prepared me for ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Images (Gary Johnson)
Philadelphia City Paper (A.D. Amorosi)
We've been told that L.A. Confidential has all the noir symmetry, sinewy corruption and swift-kick dialogue of Roman Polanski's epic Chinatown. Despite similar themes of romance caught in a net of corruption and influence (and soundtrack composer Jerry ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Philadelphia City Paper (A.D. Amorosi)
Apollo Movie Guide (Elspeth Haughton)
Three Los Angeles police officers search for redemption in this poker-hot crime drama where hookers are cut to look like movie stars and someone is muscling the mobsters out of town. ...read the complete L.A. Confidential movie review at Apollo Movie Guide (Elspeth Haughton)
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