Chinatown movie reviews & Metacritic score: Jack Nicholson is private-eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern Calif. Brilliant, dark murder mystery movie ok for teens. Chinatown is a perfectly constructed mystery film directed by Roman Polanski.

This movie got it all: perfectly paced study of human darkness. I knew CHINATOWN was hailed as the paragon of a film noir, and that's why I finally got down to watching it. The above review is for those who've never seen Chinatown, to delve While it's the kind of movie that merits repeated viewings, don't spoil the surprises found in that first viewing, there're too good.

Chinatown

All of this, as a preamble, brings us to the review of the film. Read the Empire Movie review of Chinatown. Check out the exclusive TVGuide.com movie review and see our movie rating for Chinatown. Keep track of your favorite shows and movies, across all your devices. Chinatown: a movie where a man's nose is split in two with a jackknife. A movie where a woman "Empire Essay: Chinatown Review" by Angie Errigo Errigo praises Polanski's direction, and is very.

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Now available on Blu-ray and DVD (Buy on Amazon). Chinatown, the movie that all but put Jack Nicholson on the map, is being re-released on a Special Collector's Edition. Even as it captures the town's shabby side, Li Miao's production design boasts a lushly desaturated retro look that may have.

Jack Nicholson is superb in Chinatown and he is helped in no small part by a pitch-perfect script, for which screenwriter Robert Towne won an Oscar. The plot follows Mathukutty, Zachariah, and Binoy from Kerala, who reached Chinatown in Goa to claim the ownership of a Casino but inadvertently there they get embroiled with local mafia and drug. Read China Town movie review and Malayalam reviews. Chinatown is a much-awaited multi-starrer movie of the year which has Universal star Mohanlal, Jayaram and Dileep in the leads.