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The Black Dahlia
The mysterious and dramatic events take place in the lives of two boxers who want to succeed as police men and are promoted to investigators, working together and being close to each other, but their lives turn and collapse when they investigate the killing of the black Dahlia in a series of mysterious events.
20 January 1963, Los Angeles, California, USA
24 August 1956, Chicago, Illinois, USA
30 December 1976, New York City, New York, USA
4 September 1972, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
29 July 1980, New York City, New York, USA
24 October 1981, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
27 October 1978, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
July 23, 2007
Won't do much to dissuade the common rap against De Palma as a cold technician who takes projects just for the elaborate set pieces they provide him.
September 20, 2006
Mr. De Palma and his collaborators have been unable to translate Mr. Ellroy's depth of feeling into cinematic equivalents.
September 23, 2006
The pairing of Ellroy and De Palma proves a marriage made in hardboiled heaven.
July 06, 2010
An over indulgent and often confusing stab at film noir, The Black Dahlia leaves little to be desired as director Brian De Palma continues to prove that his best days are behind him.
September 23, 2006
The picture is a kind of fattened goose that's been stuffed with goose-liver pâté. It's overrich and fundamentally unsatisfying.
August 30, 2009
Visual marvel after visual marvel
September 15, 2006
There are moments when The Black Dahlia projects a spectral world, but its ghosts in broad daylight are elusive at best.
April 26, 2008
DePalma is like a magician who dazzles us with a trick only to show us, alas, it really was only a trick, and in the meantime he's stolen our watch.
September 23, 2006
This is far from one of the director's better efforts and should be avoided by all those who are not sworn De Palma boosters.
December 07, 2007
You've barely time to soak up one revelation before another one is dumped on you from a great height.
February 17, 2014
The Black Dahlia doesn't solve the eternal De Palma dilemma, but it sure does fascinate.
September 23, 2006
Ellroy's prose crawls into characters' secret hearts and under the reader's skin, but its foetid horrors become kitschy here, the script too streamlined and the lead performances too shallow to dredge the story's depths.

