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...Farrow finds liberation in Chinatown. Woody Allen finds guilt in a marriage bed/confessional. The search is wonderfully intelligent and appealing...
...plots predictable and the prose pedestrian, but others praise the series for attracting children who aren't always comfortable with books. "The reading level is pretty simple, and that's very important in my library, where English is a second language," says Janet Campano, who works at the Chinatown branch of the New York Public ; Library...
...trade. For a private eye specializing in "matrimonial" cases, a fluid society with a rising divorce rate is bound to mean good times. But some things don't change. Once again a routine investigation of sexual hanky-panky leads Jake to the discovery of much larger depravities. In Chinatown it was the desire to control water in the San Fernando Valley that set the power elite at one another's throats; in The Two Jakes it is the desire to control the oil underlying the Los Angeles basin that's making folks murderously crazy. Perhaps predictably, the new case refers...
What this film misses most is a character like Noah Cross, whom John Huston played with chilling false charm in Chinatown. The trail that led to him was as convoluted as the story line in this movie. But we knew all along the footprints had to arrive at his doorstep, and when they did, we confronted an unforgettable monster, whose political and economic immorality was of a piece with his sexual perversion. Dramatically he was an antagonist who functioned as a powerfully clarifying force, resolving, vivifying all the movie's ambiguities. There is just no one like him here, though...
Jack Nicholson gets lost in the thickets of plot on his way back to Chinatown. -- With Mo' Better Blues, Spike Lee gets mo' worse. -- David Lynch's Wild at Heart is weird all over...