Chinatown Reviews
Top CriticAs much as I admire the work of both Polanski and Nicholson, I found Chinatown tedious from beginning to just before the end.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
This is London
Polanski's telling of his tale of corruption in LA is masterly - thrilling, humorous and disturbing at the same time - and brilliantly played by John Huston and Faye Dunaway as well as Nicholson.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Little White Lies
See this film as many times as you can. Please.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Daily Telegraph
Trust Polanski to make disillusionment seductive - rather more luxuriantly so than Billy Wilder ever managed.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Twitch
You _can't_ forget it. It's CHINATOWN.
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| Original Score: A
Three Movie Buffs
A neo-noir classic.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Q Network Film Desk
one of the great masterworks of '70s American cinema and an apex of the decade's obsession with genre revisionism
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| Original Score: 4/4
Movie Metropolis
Intrigue and suspense are the order of the day, and nothing is as it appears. Inscrutable, to be sure, and a wonderfully entertaining motion picture.
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| Original Score: 9/10
Common Sense Media
Great hardboiled detective film. Not for kids.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Clothes on Film
A landmark blend of acting, directing, structure and design. Chinatown is the greatest detective movie ever made.
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| Original Score: 5/5
ColeSmithey.com
Like "Casablanca," "Chinatown" represents a perfect storm of enormous cinema talent coming together under an intoxicating noir setting.
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| Original Score: A+
Film4
The greatest film of 1970s cinema's golden era (that wasn't made by Martin Scorsese).
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| Original Score: 5/5
Empire Magazine
This is a never-bettered noir masterpiece.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Roman Polanski's American made film, first since Rosemary's Baby shows him again in total command of talent and physical filmmaking elements.
Polanski's film suggests that the rules of the game are written in some strange, untranslatable language, and that everyone's an alien and, ultimately, a victim.
tonymacklin.net
Is Chinatown the best private eye film ever? It may well be. Nearing its thirty-fifth anniversary, it deserves a reconsideration and a celebration.
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| Original Score: 5.0/5
CinemaBlend.com
Beyond all the "masterpiece" rhetoric, this is actually a great movie.
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| Original Score: 5/5
