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Chinatown (1974): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

Chinatown is a 1974 crime, mystery, thriller film directed by Roman Polanski. It scores 8.1 on IMDb, 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, 92 on Metacritic, 7.9 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 81 while Metacritic critics give it 92, a gap of 11 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 2 of 78 films from 1974 in our catalog and number 33 of 1,701 thriller films.

Billed cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, Burt Young, John Hillerman.

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