LA Confidential is one of the best movies of the 1990s. Feels kinda like it’s been lost to a lot of people. My girlfriend and I watched it (I’d seen it multiple times) and she thought it was older than 1997, because she’d never heard of it.
There are always a slew of movies every decade that try to do a dark, hard boiled detective film noir story. Very, very few pull it off. Even fewer pull it off like LA Confidential.