Bright, imaginative, and thoroughly entertaining.

| Dec 13, 2024

Here’s the working definition of style over substance, as Dick Tracy’s flaccid script is completely overwhelmed by some of the most tremendous production values seen in many a moon.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 14, 2024

There's something painful about a movie that fails on an artistic plane as high as the one touched by this film, but uncomplying characters do not a successful film make.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 9, 2023

Dick Tracy is a cleverly planned, marvelously executed, and singularly unsatisfactory film. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 17, 2022

For all its violence, it remains jolly, its boisterous moral tone softened here and there by moments of cautious sentimentality.

| Apr 5, 2022

Viewed today amid the superhero franchise onslaught, Dick Tracy has a refreshing quality to it. The film dares to have a strong identity, artistic vision and to tell a self-contained story rather than one made to hype sequels, crossovers or sell toys.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 20, 2022

An exciting and humorous adventure film that appears to be ripped straight out of the pages of a graphic novel.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 11, 2020

A visual delight and a dramatic letdown.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 23, 2020

This is a larger-than-life comic strip come-to-life, and its success comes from Warren Beatty making all the right moves to make the ultimate Dick Tracy movie.

| Original Score: 9/10 | May 27, 2020

Dick Tracy is a painted globe of a movie. Lushly artistic on the surface but resoundingly hollow, it bounces around aimlessly and finally ricochets right off the audience into oblivion, leaving hardly a trace.

| May 20, 2020

The whole thing is very surface and frequently boring.

| Mar 14, 2020

Forget the plot. The essence of Dick Tracy lies in characters and style, and there it exceeds last summer's clunky, over-produced Batman.

| Aug 8, 2019

The under-twenty-fives who form most of the cinema audience have no special reason to warm to a comic-strip hero devised in 1931.

| Apr 9, 2019

In spite of a stellar cast led by Beatty as the square-jawed cop, Dick Tracy never comes to life--it's the rough idea of a Dick Tracy movie, stiff, formless, and kind of dumb.

| Jul 3, 2018

"Dick Tracy" isn't in the top tier of comic-book adaptations, but ingenuous art direction and set decoration and some crazy make-up jobs create a film that's still a delight to watch.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 10, 2012

Fails to be a compelling watch.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 30, 2012

A waste of time and money.

| Jul 13, 2010

The film moves at a chug when it should put the pedal to the floor.

| Jul 7, 2010

Beatty and his team of collaborators have heightened the vibrantly tawdry urban night world of Chester Gould's classic comic strip.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 7, 2010

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.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 19, 2010