Chinatown Reviews

As much as I admire the work of both Polanski and Nicholson, I found Chinatown tedious from beginning to just before the end.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Great hardboiled detective film. Not for kids.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

A film that truly defines the term classic.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

| Original Score: 5/5

[Nicholson's] performance is key in keeping Chinatown from becoming just a genre crime picture--that, and a Robert Towne screenplay that evokes an older Los Angeles.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

It takes a Herculean effort to transform this type into a character and to replace the formula with a story, and Chinatown's success in both of these regards is one of the reasons it is universally viewed as a classic.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

| Original Score: 4/5

A neo-noir classic.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

See this film as many times as you can. Please.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

| Original Score: 4/5

Chinatown incorporated themes from two eras, but the result is a film for the ages.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Is Chinatown the best private eye film ever? It may well be. Nearing its thirty-fifth anniversary, it deserves a reconsideration and a celebration.

Full Review | Original Score: 5.0/5

A landmark blend of acting, directing, structure and design. Chinatown is the greatest detective movie ever made.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Beyond all the "masterpiece" rhetoric, this is actually a great movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

| Original Score: 5/5

classic noir

| Original Score: 4/5

Like "Casablanca," "Chinatown" represents a perfect storm of enormous cinema talent coming together under an intoxicating noir setting.

Full Review | Original Score: A+

As close to perfect as a movie can get.

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Roman Polanski's American made film, first since Rosemary's Baby shows him again in total command of talent and physical filmmaking elements.

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| Original Score: 4/5