Ron-Rifkin Movie Reviews

This movie manages to make you laugh and touch you deeply as many times as you won't think is possible during the two hours. Is truth always best? Can you still be romantic and feel deeply when you are old? How do you choose to see the world? You will be asking yourself all these questions and might be surprised at the answers.

They passed this movie in cable and I just saw it for Mr.Matthau but when I finished watching it I was amazed how great this movie is,I don't even know if it did it to the theaters here in Mexico...I think Alex Lora of a great group called El Tri appears.A touching story and one of the greatest movies ever made.Buy it!

We couldn't stop laughing! Two old codgers sitting on a park bench getting stoned...laughs are sure to follow. Tackles some big issues, too, although true to life, no big solutions are found. Aging, the homeless, drugs, violence. All this and more can be seen through the witty eyes of Walter Matheau and Ossie Davis. I'm buying this video so that I can watch it again and again!

Dreyfuss is brilliant in this rarely seen gem. He's a freelance private eye juggling an ex-wife and her guru, two precocious kids, a leftist ex-radical mother, a new romance with an old flame, and a trunkful of counter culture ideals seemingly UN-chic in the wasteland known as the 1970's. All this and a great murder mystery to boot. Am I the only one who saw it? At this price I guess I will be. If you get a chance to see it, do...it's great! Too bad Leon's song is left out--what were they thinking?

The real life story of a woman (Sophia Loren) who risks her life by taking part in an undercover operation. Her son's life is being destroyed by his dependency on drugs. With the help of drug agent (Billy Dee Williams), they start a battle against the cruel world of cocaine & heroin.
Originally shown as a mini-series. Approximately 133 minutes.

This video deals with a miltary school in the 1960's. A cadethas died.The miltary are looking into the matter. Everyone issuspect. Alec Baldwin plays a cadet who gets set up during the trial of his fellow cadet. The movie is fast as the miltary is trying to avoid a media frenzy on the base. This movie also deals with gays and the miltary. There is a slight hint that maybe the cadet was killed by a gay lover. Of course the miltary back then would not like this stuff out to the media. The movie is a very suspenseful thriller in the 1960's! This video features an an all star cast Alec Baldwin(The Hunt For Red Ocober,Mecury Rising),Lane Smith(Superman TV series)Lloyd Bridges(the hot shot movies) and others! look for some up and coming stars in this video as well!

This video deals with a miltary school in the 1960's. A cadethas died.The miltary are looking into the matter. Everyone issuspect. Alec Baldwin plays a cadet who gets set up during the trial of his fellow cadet. The movie is fast as the miltary is trying to avoid a media frenzy on the base. This movie also deals with gays and the miltary. There is a slight hint that maybe the cadet was killed by a gay lover. Of course the miltary back then would not like this stuff out to the media. The movie is a very suspenseful thriller in the 1960's! This video features an an all star cast Alec Baldwin(The Hunt For Red Ocober,Mecury Rising),Lane Smith(Superman TV series)Lloyd Bridges(the hot shot movies) and others! look for some up and coming stars in this video as well!

This video deals with a miltary school in the 1960's. A cadethas died.The miltary are looking into the matter. Everyone issuspect. Alec Baldwin plays a cadet who gets set up during the trial of his fellow cadet. The movie is fast as the miltary is trying to avoid a media frenzy on the base. This movie also deals with gays and the miltary. There is a slight hint that maybe the cadet was killed by a gay lover. Of course the miltary back then would not like this stuff out to the media. The movie is a very suspenseful thriller in the 1960's! This video features an an all star cast Alec Baldwin(The Hunt For Red Ocober,Mecury Rising),Lane Smith(Superman TV series)Lloyd Bridges(the hot shot movies) and others! look for some up and coming stars in this video as well!

Jackie Gleason is TERRIFIC as Henry Gondorff though I don't see why the hell Paul Newman couldn't have returned for the smash sequel. This movie comes CLOSE to being as successfull as the 1973 hit but misses by an inch. EVERYONE who worked on this film-TERRIFIC job. I LOVED Oliver Reed's portrayal of Doyle Lonnegan. Rated PG.

I was not alive in the 1950's,I have never been to Los Angeles, or anywhere else in California for that matter. So I have a hard time explaining why this film makes me feel like I'm in 1950's Hollywood. "L.A. Confidential" had the unfortunate timing of being released at the same time as "Titanic" and was grossly overlooked. This movie has all the essential elements of a great story: greed, lust, power, corruption, sex, and drugs. In L.A. Confidential there seems to be no absolute black and white, only people living their lives in different shades of gray. No character seems to be all good or all bad, but they all have their own since of morality. Jack Vinncines (Kevin Spacey) is the narcotics detective knee-deep in the glitz and glamopur of Holloywood, rubbing elbows with the rich and powerful. Ed Exley, the son of fallen department hero, determined to fulfill his dreams of being a detective, no matter the cost. Bud White (Russell Crowe), the muscle bound thug cop obsessed with protecting abused women, and longing for the day he can use his brain to work a case instead of his fists. Each cop sets forth on a journey in seemingly different directions, all coming together in a web of deception and corruption. Kim Bassinger is outstanding as the glamorous prostitute cought in the middle, and James Cromwell (probably the best actor you don't know) is terrific as Captain Dudley Smith. Many want to label "L.A. Confidential" as a great example of flim noir, but I say that is just a great film. It's dark and full of realism, and a movie that has been over looked far too long.

The best Russell Crowe I've seen. Same for Kin Bassinger. Spacey delivers. Just a GREAT film! Awesome. They hit the mark with the period--clothes, cars, feel, etc. on the QT and very hush-hush... The entire cast pulls out terrific performances. A breakout film and well worth all the hype! See it!

I saw "LA Confidential" wondering what all of the hoopla was about. At the end of the movie I was really surprised at how much I liked this movie, a tale of three LA detectives unraveling a murder mystery in 1950s Los Angeles.

Based on the James Ellroy novel, "LA Confidential" is written and directed by Curtis Hanson, a terrifically talented writer and director. Hanson dives the audience right into the story, engrossing us in the story from the outset. His vision of LA in the 50's feels real- no rose-colored looks at 1950s America here. The crooks are violent, the cops either corrupt or (mostly) well-intentioned, and all is not well in paradise. Los Angeles may be paradise, but there is sure trouble in it.

Give Hanson credit for casting too. The cast is terrific- James Cromwell (one of my favorite actors), Kim Basinger, Kevin Spacey (another one of my favorites), Danny DeVito, David Strathairn, and newcomers Guy Pierce and Russell Crowe are outstanding. Crowe in particular does an outstanding job, taking a character that seems at first glance to be a big thug and making him into a complex hero.

Everything else about "LA Confidential" is right on the money. Film noir at its finest.

I was not alive in the 1950's,I have never been to Los Angeles, or anywhere else in California for that matter. So I have a hard time explaining why this film makes me feel like I'm in 1950's Hollywood. "L.A. Confidential" had the unfortunate timing of being released at the same time as "Titanic" and was grossly overlooked. This movie has all the essential elements of a great story: greed, lust, power, corruption, sex, and drugs. In L.A. Confidential there seems to be no absolute black and white, only people living their lives in different shades of gray. No character seems to be all good or all bad, but they all have their own since of morality. Jack Vinncines (Kevin Spacey) is the narcotics detective knee-deep in the glitz and glamopur of Holloywood, rubbing elbows with the rich and powerful. Ed Exley, the son of fallen department hero, determined to fulfill his dreams of being a detective, no matter the cost. Bud White (Russell Crowe), the muscle bound thug cop obsessed with protecting abused women, and longing for the day he can use his brain to work a case instead of his fists. Each cop sets forth on a journey in seemingly different directions, all coming together in a web of deception and corruption. Kim Bassinger is outstanding as the glamorous prostitute cought in the middle, and James Cromwell (probably the best actor you don't know) is terrific as Captain Dudley Smith. Many want to label "L.A. Confidential" as a great example of flim noir, but I say that is just a great film. It's dark and full of realism, and a movie that has been over looked far too long.

The best Russell Crowe I've seen. Same for Kin Bassinger. Spacey delivers. Just a GREAT film! Awesome. They hit the mark with the period--clothes, cars, feel, etc. on the QT and very hush-hush... The entire cast pulls out terrific performances. A breakout film and well worth all the hype! See it!

I saw "LA Confidential" wondering what all of the hoopla was about. At the end of the movie I was really surprised at how much I liked this movie, a tale of three LA detectives unraveling a murder mystery in 1950s Los Angeles.

Based on the James Ellroy novel, "LA Confidential" is written and directed by Curtis Hanson, a terrifically talented writer and director. Hanson dives the audience right into the story, engrossing us in the story from the outset. His vision of LA in the 50's feels real- no rose-colored looks at 1950s America here. The crooks are violent, the cops either corrupt or (mostly) well-intentioned, and all is not well in paradise. Los Angeles may be paradise, but there is sure trouble in it.

Give Hanson credit for casting too. The cast is terrific- James Cromwell (one of my favorite actors), Kim Basinger, Kevin Spacey (another one of my favorites), Danny DeVito, David Strathairn, and newcomers Guy Pierce and Russell Crowe are outstanding. Crowe in particular does an outstanding job, taking a character that seems at first glance to be a big thug and making him into a complex hero.

Everything else about "LA Confidential" is right on the money. Film noir at its finest.

I was not alive in the 1950's,I have never been to Los Angeles, or anywhere else in California for that matter. So I have a hard time explaining why this film makes me feel like I'm in 1950's Hollywood. "L.A. Confidential" had the unfortunate timing of being released at the same time as "Titanic" and was grossly overlooked. This movie has all the essential elements of a great story: greed, lust, power, corruption, sex, and drugs. In L.A. Confidential there seems to be no absolute black and white, only people living their lives in different shades of gray. No character seems to be all good or all bad, but they all have their own since of morality. Jack Vinncines (Kevin Spacey) is the narcotics detective knee-deep in the glitz and glamopur of Holloywood, rubbing elbows with the rich and powerful. Ed Exley, the son of fallen department hero, determined to fulfill his dreams of being a detective, no matter the cost. Bud White (Russell Crowe), the muscle bound thug cop obsessed with protecting abused women, and longing for the day he can use his brain to work a case instead of his fists. Each cop sets forth on a journey in seemingly different directions, all coming together in a web of deception and corruption. Kim Bassinger is outstanding as the glamorous prostitute cought in the middle, and James Cromwell (probably the best actor you don't know) is terrific as Captain Dudley Smith. Many want to label "L.A. Confidential" as a great example of flim noir, but I say that is just a great film. It's dark and full of realism, and a movie that has been over looked far too long.

The best Russell Crowe I've seen. Same for Kin Bassinger. Spacey delivers. Just a GREAT film! Awesome. They hit the mark with the period--clothes, cars, feel, etc. on the QT and very hush-hush... The entire cast pulls out terrific performances. A breakout film and well worth all the hype! See it!

I saw "LA Confidential" wondering what all of the hoopla was about. At the end of the movie I was really surprised at how much I liked this movie, a tale of three LA detectives unraveling a murder mystery in 1950s Los Angeles.

Based on the James Ellroy novel, "LA Confidential" is written and directed by Curtis Hanson, a terrifically talented writer and director. Hanson dives the audience right into the story, engrossing us in the story from the outset. His vision of LA in the 50's feels real- no rose-colored looks at 1950s America here. The crooks are violent, the cops either corrupt or (mostly) well-intentioned, and all is not well in paradise. Los Angeles may be paradise, but there is sure trouble in it.

Give Hanson credit for casting too. The cast is terrific- James Cromwell (one of my favorite actors), Kim Basinger, Kevin Spacey (another one of my favorites), Danny DeVito, David Strathairn, and newcomers Guy Pierce and Russell Crowe are outstanding. Crowe in particular does an outstanding job, taking a character that seems at first glance to be a big thug and making him into a complex hero.

Everything else about "LA Confidential" is right on the money. Film noir at its finest.