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True Confessions
In 1940s Los Angeles, Detective Tom Spellacy probes into the savage murder of a woman found dumped in an empty lot, not knowing that he will have to clash with his younger brother, a worldly ambitious monsignor.
June 28, 1906 in Greece
30 December 1911, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 September 1946, Havana, Cuba
26 November 1910, Durban, Natal, South Africa
2 July 1932, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2 June 1927, Landour, Mussoorie, India
August 30, 2004
Quite simply it's one of the most entertaining, most intelligent and most thoroughly satisfying commercial American films in a very long time.
June 24, 2006
Numerous vital characters are dropped and the case-solving stripped of its complexity, with the resulting film over-linear and one-dimensional.
October 21, 2005
An atmospheric, always-intriguing mystery that works equally well as a perceptive character study. One of the very best films of the 1980s.
February 02, 2007
Acting compensates for disappointing ending
March 07, 2011
Two exciting, dangerous actors have little to do: Duvall spends too much time pacing and waiting; De Niro's big scene has him hanging up his vestments.
January 30, 2002
Robert Duvall puts in a top-drawer performance in this crime drama mixing sleuthing and sacraments, crime and confession - one of the best films of 1981.
March 26, 2009
Given the powerhouse topline casting combo and provocative theme, True Confessions has to be chalked up as something of a disappointment.
October 23, 2004
True Confessions contains scenes that are just about as good as scenes can be. Then why does the movie leave us disoriented and disappointed, and why does the ending fail dismally?
December 18, 2015
Des is another solitary soul, but perhaps he's the most subtle and accessible solitary De Niro has yet embodied -- a man whose isolation draws you closer instead of giving you the willies.
March 07, 2011
A fascinating film that exposes the dark underside of the Catholic Church and fixes it firmly in the seedy, corrupt world of film noir.