One of my all time favorites.

Fantastic!

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

True Confessions is a superior movie as Robert DeNiro on unusual role as a Monsignor with ambitious career on Catholic Church which is Cardinal's assessor where get involved with political matters of Church. Your old brother is a bad temper but honest cop they are friends until a corpse found cut on two parts appears on L.A. area which remember Black Dahlia real case.The movie is settled in 1948 and when the Duvall carefully investigating the case found some connections with your brother,so he has to decided what to do!!!Ulu Grosbard made important movies in your life and this picture is one of them and marvelous filmed and directed!!!

This one is probably less well known than THE LAST TYCOON despite the star cast - De Niro, Duvall and Durning. The confrontation scene between Durning and Duvall was great - it was pretty violent and ugly, the two of them sort of exploded on screen. I wish the film had more explosive scenes like that. Despite the understated tone of the movie, I was never bored. And i guess guess that is mainly because of the mesmerizing performances by De Niro and Duvall. De Niro must have done this right after THE RAGING BULL. Here he plays a solemn but ambitious priest in direct contrast to his aggressive detective brother played by Duvall.The film was based on John Gregory Dunne's novel and was adapted by none other than Joan Didion (PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK) and Dunne who was her husband.

There are so many excellent reviewers on this site that I hesitate to improve upon all of their fine treatises, but here goes. Obviously, we have two of our finest living actors portraying the cop and rising priest. Maybe against type, Robert DeNiro is a quiet,thoughtful, somewhat hypocritical cleric, with a cynical, yet forgiving nature (later he forgives his brother in the final scene), and we compare this to modern performances of today in which he appears to take the money and run, i.e., Meet the Parents, etc.......here he is completely believable as an ambitious priest with obvious flaws and foible's. It may cause us who have become friends with various religious professionals to be more tolerant of their flaws after seeing Dez (his priestly character) second-guess his character and bounce off of his cop-brother, Duvall, in the script. It is a character study of all of us who have had or still have, an older or younger sibling with whom we battled and argued as children and young adults, and with whom we still have unsolved issues even now as adults. To try to communicate our feelings is so tough and so revealing for both of us.A fabulous movie. I have watched it 10-12 times over the years. Where are the scripts like this today??? Where are the actors who can so throw themselves into projects like "True Confessions" and give us our $10 bucks worth at the theaters? Not many, as I see it. Get this movie and watch it from time to time. You will discover yourself looking at these characters, all of them, from the Monsignor, the prostitute, the crooked cops, and the old burned out priest (Burgess Meredith) ,and you will pass judgment on yourself, more so than you pass it on others. A wonderful film.

You'd think a movie with Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall at the height of their game would be excellent. Right? Uh-uh. This movie is so slow, I think some modern reptile bones petrified before final credits. The two men, both deeply method-style in acting, conjure Stanislavsky while the rest of us go to sleep. De Niro was pegged God of Acting by our eastern establishment press and he's always worn the crown uneasily. Some of his work is downright boring. This one isn't - quite. But he and Duvall are locked in battle to see who can take the longest pause in a snatch of dialogue. Please! A little more lively. Both men have actually improved with age, and nowadays, actually speak their lines clearly. Amazing!