Director Oren Moverman and crime novelist James Ellroy dig deep into the scandal-plagued LAPD to find the baddest, dirtiest cop of them all. By Kirk Honeycutt Woddy Harrelson in Moverman's L.A. cop ...

Rampart is a hard-slamming action film … a disturbing portrait of a goon gone-amok … a subtle investigation of a sensitive man … an incisive dissection of a raging numbskull … a shrewd portrayal of a ...

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In the late 1990s, the Los Angeles Police Department’s Rampart Division was caught up in the worst corruption scandal in the department’s history. It didn’t take long for Hollywood to mine the subject ...

Rampart is a cop film co-written by James Ellroy. If you’ve read or seen any James Ellroy before, you don’t need me to tell you much more. In fact, it would make this one of the shortest reviews I’ll ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Woody Harrelson is leaner in “Rampart,” the skin tight over the skull, the jaw line defiant. His eyes are busy. He is a cop in the Los Angeles police ...

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When quizzed about a festival appearance this year, Foster revealed it was more likely for “next year. We’re just cutting right now. We just got an assembly” before discussing the project in further ...

Rampart is surely the film closest yet to Ellroy's own nightmarish vision, in which there is never any resolution of right and wrong, the source of this malaise notoriously originating in the unsolved ...

Woody Harrelson is as corrosive as a faceful of battery acid in Rampart, an exhaustingly downbeat thriller about a bad cop slithering towards moral oblivion. Set during the Rampart scandal of the late ...

The dirty LAPD cop is a much love-hated figure in American cinema, in movies like Internal Affairs, LA Confidential and Training Day. (Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant works in New York, but has a kind ...