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The Black Dahlia
Directed by
Brian De Palma
R
2006
2h 1m
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5.6
31%
27%
5.6
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Two police detectives see their personal and professional lives fall apart in the wake of the "Black Dahlia" murder investigation.
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Cast of The Black Dahlia
Josh Hartnett
Bucky Bleichert
Scarlett Johansson
Kay Lake
Aaron Eckhart
Lee Blanchard
Hilary Swank
Madeleine Linscott
Mia Kirshner
Elizabeth Short
Mike Starr
Det. Russ Millard
Fiona Shaw
Ramona Linscott
Patrick Fischler
Deputy DA Ellis Loew
James Otis
Dolph Bleichert
John Kavanagh
Emmett Linscott
Troy Evans
Chief Ted Green
Anthony Russell
Morrie Friedman
Pepe Serna
Tomas Dos Santos
Angus MacInnes
Capt. John Tierney
Rachel Miner
Martha Linscott
Victor McGuire
Sgt. Bill Koenig
Gregg Henry
Pete Lukins
Jemima Rooper
Lorna Mertz
Rose McGowan
Sheryl Saddon
Dan Ponce
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The Black Dahlia Ratings & Reviews
UGO
Brian Tallerico
You have to wonder just how vibrant the film would have been during the Reagan or Clinton administration, when De Palma was in his prime.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Forty-five minutes in, I was already glancing at my watch and wondering why the only lively actress in this film was playing the dead girl. Go figure.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
The pairing of Ellroy and De Palma proves a marriage made in hardboiled heaven.
The New Yorker
David Denby
The picture is a kind of fattened goose that's been stuffed with goose-liver pâté. It's overrich and fundamentally unsatisfying.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
Nails the tale's particulars but not its soul.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
Mr. De Palma and his collaborators have been unable to translate Mr. Ellroy's depth of feeling into cinematic equivalents.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
The director is more interested in seeing how many outrageously dazzling tricks he can pull off with his camera than he is in constructing a coherent or plausible storyline.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
There are moments when The Black Dahlia projects a spectral world, but its ghosts in broad daylight are elusive at best.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
The Black Dahlia feels wobbly and uncertain.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Despite genius-level contributions from cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond and art director Dante Ferretti, the handsome film is almost abusively murky, trafficking in difficult-to-follow plot manipulations, arbitrary twists and mumbled dialogue.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
In The Black Dahlia, narrative strands tangle and wither, and minor characters clutter the plot.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
What it accomplishes with its stunning cinematography and set design is undercut by a lack of coherence.
Seattle Times
Jeff Shannon
Despite some weaknesses, The Black Dahlia remains curiously fascinating.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
With the exception of Aaron Eckhart, De Palma's actors can't live up to the period or the atmosphere.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
De Palma throws everything at the screen, but almost nothing sticks.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Josh Friedman's screenplay doesn't so much distill the flavor of James Ellroy's hard-boiled writing as serve up indigestible chunks of verbiage.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Brian De Palma drains the life out of James Ellroy's take on the spectacularly cruel 1947 murder of a young Los Angeles woman known as the Black Dahlia.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Visually dazzling but ultimately disappointing.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
The convoluted plot would be exhausting even if it were believable. It isn't.
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
Despite some amusing distractions, watching the big picture coalesce is not unlike watching someone complete a jigsaw puzzle. It all comes together eventually, but you already saw the image on the box.
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The Black Dahlia Scene: Bucky Stops To See Kay
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The Black Dahlia Scene: Lee Introduces Bucky To Kay
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The Black Dahlia Scene: Bucky Arrives At Madeline's House
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The Black Dahlia Scene: Bucky Asks Madeline About Elizabeth Short
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The Black Dahlia Scene: Elizabeth Short Plays Sad In A Screen Test
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The Black Dahlia Scene: Kay Confronts Bucky In Front Of Madeline's House
The Black Dahlia Scene: Kay Confronts Bucky In Front Of Madeline's House
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The Black Dahlia Scene: Bucky Questions An Aquaintance Of Elizabeth Short
The Black Dahlia Scene: Bucky Questions An Aquaintance Of Elizabeth Short
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The Black Dahlia Scene: Lee Tells Bucky Why He Wants To Investigate Dahlia
The Black Dahlia Scene: Lee Tells Bucky Why He Wants To Investigate Dahlia
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The Black Dahlia Scene: Madeline Tells Bucky About Sleeping With Elizabeth Short
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