MOVIE REVIEW

Chinatown / 1974

You get tough. You get tender. You get close to each other. Maybe you even get close to the truth.

7.9 / 10 (4,229 votes)

130 minutes

DIRECTOR Roman Polanski

WRITERS Robert Towne

CAST Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman, Diane Ladd, Roman Polanski, Roy Jenson, Richard Bakalyan, James Hong, Bruce Glover, Joe Mantell, Roy Roberts, Noble Willingham, Rance Howard

PRODUCTION Paramount Pictures, Long Road Productions, Robert Evans Productions

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REVIEW & SYNOPSIS

Sinopsis

Chinatown adalah sebuah Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller yang dirilis pada tahun 1974. “You get tough. You get tender. You get close to each other. Maybe you even get close to the truth.” Film ini disutradarai oleh Roman Polanski dan dibintangi oleh Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman.

Chinatown menghadirkan cerita yang mendalam tentang perjuangan, konflik, dan resolusi yang memukau. Dengan alur yang terstruktur dengan baik, film ini berhasil membawa penonton dalam pengalaman sinematik yang tak terlupakan.

Dari segi teknis, Chinatown menawarkan sinematografi yang memanjakan mata, tata suara yang imersif, serta akting yang meyakinkan dari para pemerannya.

Secara keseluruhan, Chinatown adalah Crime yang layak masuk dalam daftar tontonan Anda. Film ini tidak hanya menghibur tetapi juga memberikan pesan moral yang mendalam.

Last Updated: April 28, 2026

COMMUNITY REVIEWS FROM TMDB

John Chard 9.5/10

September 24, 2015

He nose you know! Chinatown is directed by Roman Polanski and written by Robert Towne. It stars Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez and John Hillerman. Music is by Jerry Goldsmith and cinematography by John A. Alonzo. Private investigator J.J. Gittes (Nicholson) is working on an adultery case but quickly finds himself embroiled in murder and corruption. The gathering of Polanski, Towne, Nicholson and Robert Evans (producer) put their respective skills together to craft one of the most lauded neo-noir films of all time. It's a searing picture awash with the staples of the film noir and gumshoe...

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Filipe Manuel Neto 10/10

July 29, 2022

**Great.** I can't say much about Roman Polanski because I feel I've seen too little of his work to make a more global analysis: I have only seen _The Ninth Gate_, _The Pianist_ and, now, this film. It's not much… but the truth is that they are three films that I really liked, and about which I have a very good opinion. This film is very good, fitting into a style that we can call “neo-noir”, insofar as its visual aesthetic is heavily inspired by noir, with the caveats that are due, as it is a color film and not...

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CinemaSerf 7/10

September 9, 2022

I think this might be my favourite role from Faye Dunaway. She is "Evelyn", a woman who suspects that her husband "Hollis" (Darrell Zwerling) is playing away from home. She engages the services of the cynical PI "Gittes" (Jack Nicholson) and pretty soon people are dead and he is embroiled in an internecine story of adultery, corruption and manipulation that proves pretty perilous for a detective who is working with one women he suspects is being a bit frugal with the truth and another whose identity he is desperately struggling to discover. Nicholson is also on super form, his performance...

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