Dick Tracy: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 1 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 43 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

59

Beatty and his team of collaborators have heightened the vibrantly tawdry urban night world of Chester Gould's classic comic strip.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Vincent Canby New York Times (Top Critic)

80

Summer hasn't officially arrived yet, but it's unlikely to offer a big-budget commercial movie as thoroughly entertaining as this stylish real-life cartoon.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

Tracy is Tinseltown's annual celebration of everything that's wrong with itself: the hype, the agent-negotiated star system, the Hollywood 'fun' assembly-line method of copy-cat mediocrity, etc.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Rita Kempley Washington Post (Top Critic)

Dick Tracy is Batman in a fedora -- a much-ballyhooed cartoon noir that's as skimpy on substance as it is burgeoning with jujube-colored, jutt-jawed style.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

100

This is a movie in which every frame contains some kind of artificial effect. An entire world has been built here, away from the daylight and the realism of ordinary city streets.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

This has an appealing two-dimensional comic-book look, but lacks the vision to go with it, not to mention an interesting hero or a feeling for action.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Variety Staff Variety (Top Critic)

Though it looks ravishing, Warren Beatty's longtime pet project is a curiously remote, uninvolving film.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Keith Phipps Slate (Top Critic)

The film moves at a chug when it should put the pedal to the floor.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)

For all its superficial pleasures, Dick Tracy ultimately flounders because it provides an audience with nothing to take home and dream about.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Film4

A waste of time and money.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Brian Orndorf BrianOrndorf.com

75

Dick Tracy is skillfully mounted, generating an optical wonderland for the viewer, with all sorts of details and photographic vibrancy to study when the film takes off on the wings of a tune.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Tim Brayton Antagony & Ecstasy

80

So deliberately, carefully shallow, so conceptually audacious; and yes, so unearthly beautiful in every last frame.
Full Review » 2 years ago
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews

63

...an impressively conceived piece of work that has just as much to offer adults as it does children...
Full Review » 2 years ago
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com

75

The movie may lack unified conception, but it's supremely entertaining due to sumptuous production, lavish imagery and opulent costumes, and some terrific cameo appearances, such as Al Pacino.
Full Review » 3 years ago
TV Guide's Movie Guide

88

In sheer visual terms, this is the most convincing of the comic book movies that have been popular for the last decade or so.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com

60

Full Review » 5 years ago
Clint Morris Moviehole

60

One of the most entertaining and creative event movies of the Reagan-era
Full Review » 6 years ago
Time Out

A spectacular movie whose technical achievements -- notably the sharp editing -- will surely provide a gauge by which subsequent comic strip films are judged.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Wesley Lovell Oscar Guy

75

Full Review » 7 years ago
Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com

40

Full Review » 7 years ago
Rob Blackwelder SPLICEDWire

60

Full Review » 8 years ago
Luke Y. Thompson New Times

100

A ground-breaking and striking comic-based movie, though the villains are too easily vanquished
Full Review » 8 years ago
Andy Klein Los Angeles CityBeat

40

Full Review » 8 years ago
Sarah Chauncey Reel.com

20

Full Review » 8 years ago
Nell Minow Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies

60

Full Review » 9 years ago