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Brian De Palma and "The Black Dahlia" are a natural fit, a filmmaker with a gift for crafting visceral, lurid imagery, and a story that's heavy on bloody evisceration.

That's not to say the result is a good movie, though. This fictionalized tale of two Los Angeles detectives assigned to the gruesome 1940s murder of a real-life wannabe starlet begins as a slow but intriguing character study that gradually unravels into a turgid mess.

Adapted from James Ellroy's noir mystery thriller, "The Black Dahlia" is something of a return to form for the director behind such moody, stylized and often grisly crime sagas as "Scarface," "The Untouchables" and "Dressed to Kill."

And it's definitely a step up ...

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