Fresh
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.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
L.A. Confidential
Everything is suspect... Everyone is for sale... And nothing is what it seems.
1997 · 2h 18m · R
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Curtis Hanson
Overview
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Director and cast
- Curtis Hanson Director
- Kevin Spacey as Det. Sgt. Jack Vincennes
- Guy Pearce as Det. Lt. Edmund Jennings " Ed " Exley
- Russell Crowe as Wendell 'Bud' White
- James Cromwell as Cap. Dudley Liam Smith
- Kim Basinger as Lynn Bracken
- Danny DeVito as Sid Hudgens
- David Strathairn Cast
- Ron Rifkin Cast
- Graham Beckel Cast
- Matt McCoy Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
99%
Tomatometer
Fresh
There are so many things to enjoy here. Director Curtis Hanson... keeps a complex story coherent and absorbing -- if bloody at the end.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Fresh
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.
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News
Fresh
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.
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh
Hanson has made the film noir setting virtually another starring character.
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune
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