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By Robert R (1,109) on 01 Nov 2008

A noir-ish crime drama based on the Black Dahlia case. Duvall and Deniro are as good as you'd expect…

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By David T (1,513) on 28 Jun 2008

Robert De Niro is just as convincing as a priest as he is a gangster or a madman…

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By Matthew C (1,721) on 19 May 2008

This film seems like its going to be another De Niro classic. The acting is quality, the story is interesting…

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By Arnaud V (7) on 11 May 2008

The story is based on the murder of the Black Dahlia. It is, so far, the best adaptation of this story ever made…

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By Quinn H (54) on 23 Mar 2008

A pretty interesting tale that is not as great as it should be... Both Bob's are excellent. That's a given and they don't disappoint…

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By Rob T (428) on 04 Feb 2008

Rather boring story set around the church and sibling relationships. The acting is ok but the plot and script are weak…

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By Pam B (60) on 11 Jan 2008

Robert Duvall is Marlon Brandos favourite actor. Bob and Bob play brothers. Bob is a detective and Bob is priest. Masters of acting art…

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By Cary M (42) on 19 Dec 2007

In a movie starring Robert DeNiro and Robert Duvall, you would think DeNiro would play the badass cop and Duvall the quiet priest and not the…

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By Clint S (95) on 25 Nov 2007

Great movie adaptation of the John Gregory Dunne novel on the Black Dahlia story…

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By Oliver Z (47) on 04 Jul 2007

A slow and sometimes dull film, but generally this is a serious and very well performed film…

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By Private U (13,627) on 14 Jun 2007

Classic De Niro/Duvall collaboration, with great confessional scenes, a Tridentine wedding Mass, and a far better take on the Black Dahlia…

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By Geoff Andrew (550) for Time Out (7,510) on 23 Jun 2006

Numerous vital characters are dropped and the case-solving stripped of its complexity, with the resulting film over-linear and one-dimensional…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 22 Oct 2004

True Confessions contains scenes that are just about as good as scenes can be…

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By Vincent Canby (762) for New York Times (5,786) on 29 Aug 2004

Marvelously well-acted...Quite simply it's one of the most entertaining, most intelligent and most thoroughly satisfying commercial American…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 30 Jan 2002

Robert Duvall puts in a top-drawer performance in this crime drama mixing sleuthing and sacraments, crime and confession - one of the best…

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By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 Nov 1998

The film looks like an attempt to make a Martin Scorsese movie without Martin Scorsese…

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By Richard Corliss (1,032) for Time (1,811) on 20 Aug 1996

So why does the movie version, with Robert Duvall as Tom and Robert De Niro as Des, proceed at the sluggish pace of a Sodality novena…

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By Jack Kroll (152) for Newsweek (1,534) on 06 Aug 1995

Between the splendid cast and the unsavoriness of the period details, True Confessions generates so much absorbing human interest and persuasive…

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By Judith Martin (39) for Washington Post (9,851) on 25 Jun 1987

True Confessions contains scenes that are just about as good as scenes can be…

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