Round up the usual perverts
Michael Wood: ‘L.A. Confidential’, 1 January 1998
“... of a period but a lively party in fancy dress. Kevin Spacey, in particular, as Sergeant Jack Vincennes, the man behind the Dragnet look-alike, plays the whole thing as a charade, fun to do but fatal to take seriously. It’s not that the movie is about movies, littered with allusions to film history, although there is that, too. At one point Kim ... ”