The definitive example of the noir genre

Rating: 9/10 (29 November 1999)

Roman Polanski's greatest film and the greatest noir film ever. Sexy and scintillating, dark and devasting the story line is absolutely absorbing. Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway deliver one their finest performances, though these are not the highlights of the film, but rather the ending. It must surely rank among the finest moments in American cinema, drenched in Polanski's devilish style it is the high point of a masterpiece of writing and directing.