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  • Starring: Harvey Keitel, Jack Nicholson
  • Summary: It's 1948 and private eye Jake Gittes is still in Los Angeles in this sequel to "Chinatown."
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 17
  2. Negative: 1 out of 17
  1. 88
    It's an exquisite short story about a mood, and a time, and a couple of guys who are blind-sided by love.
  2. Reviewed by: Mat Snow
    80
    The Two Jakes is well-acted and looks fabulous, cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond paints it eerily bright and shiny.
  3. 50
    Towne doesn't weave all the elements as deftly as before, and his political observations seem secondhand.
  4. 10
    What The Two Jakes makes us long for most is the earlier film.

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