Bright, imaginative, and thoroughly entertaining.

| Dec 13, 2024

A visual delight and a dramatic letdown.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 23, 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 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

Though it looks ravishing, Warren Beatty's longtime pet project is a curiously remote, uninvolving film.

| Apr 23, 2009

Forget the hype. Now for the real question: How's the damn movie? Answer: Pretty darn swell.

| Apr 7, 2008

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.

| Apr 18, 2007

A spectacular movie whose technical achievements -- notably the sharp editing -- will surely provide a gauge by which subsequent comic strip films are judged.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 26, 2003

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 20, 2003

For all its superficial pleasures, Dick Tracy ultimately flounders because it provides an audience with nothing to take home and dream about.

Full Review | May 12, 2001

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.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

It's fun spotting stars under cakes of make-up and the panache, great supporting cast and good-natured, old-fashioned feel make for a better movie than you remember.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

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.

| Jan 1, 2000

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.

| Jan 1, 2000