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Dick Tracy (1990)

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Reviews Counted:36

Fresh:24

Rotten:12

Average Rating:5.8/10

Consensus: Dick Tracy is stylish, unique, and an undeniable technical triumph, but it ultimately struggles to rise above its two-dimensional artificiality.

Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Synopsis: Warren Beatty directs and stars in this lavish adaptation of Chester Gould's famous comic strip. Against a stylized and solid color backdrop of 1930s Chicago, straight-laced, square-jawed,... Warren Beatty directs and stars in this lavish adaptation of Chester Gould's famous comic strip. Against a stylized and solid color backdrop of 1930s Chicago, straight-laced, square-jawed, detective hero Dick Tracy battles gangster Big Boy Caprice -- and temptation in the form of blonde bombshell Breathless Mahoney. Dick's long-time girlfriend Tess Trueheart and a feisty street urchin are on hand to offer support. With songs by Stephen Sondheim, Madonna as Breathless Mahoney, and a vast array of cartoon villains -- Mumbles, Pruneface, Lips, Flattop -- brought to life by a glittering cast of stars. [More]

Starring: Warren Beatty, Madonna, Glenne Headly, Al Pacino

Starring: Warren Beatty, Madonna, Glenne Headly, Al Pacino, Charlie Korsmo, Mandy Patinkin, Dick Van Dyke, William Forsythe, Charles Durning, R.G. Armstrong, Estelle Parsons, Kathy Bates, James Caan, Michael J. Pollard, Dustin Hoffman

Director: Warren Beatty

Director: Warren Beatty

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06/19/04
Andy Klein
Andy Klein
Los Angeles CityBeat

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comment 1 Comment
07/03/03
Brian J. Arthurs
Brian J. Arthurs
Beach Reporter (Southern California)

Lame and tedious comic book film. Try THE SHADOW or THE ROCKETEER instead.

comment 1 Comment
03/19/03
Brian Mckay
Brian Mckay
eFilmCritic.com

One of the most entertaining and creative event movies of the Reagan-era

comment 1 Comment
03/11/06
Clint Morris
Clint Morris
Moviehole

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 Source: Washington Post | comment 1 Comment
01/01/00
Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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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 Source: Chicago Reader | comment 1 Comment
04/18/07
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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Should have stayed in the funny pages.

comment 1 Comment
09/15/03
Kevin A. Ranson
Kevin A. Ranson
MovieCrypt.com

No review available.

comment 1 Comment
12/28/04
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

Makes me mad just thinking about it.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment 1 Comment
01/01/00
Oz
Oz
eFilmCritic.com

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

Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | comment 1 Comment
05/12/01
Peter Travers
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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03/05/03
Rebecca Murray
Rebecca Murray
About.com

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 Source: Washington Post | comment 1 Comment
01/01/00
Rita Kempley
Rita Kempley
Washington Post
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06/04/04
Sarah Chauncey
Sarah Chauncey
Reel.com

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

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01/26/06
Time Out

In sheer visual terms, this is the most convincing of the comic book movies that have been popular for the last decade or so.

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04/18/07
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04/23/09
Variety

colorful fune attuned to the spirit of the comic strip; Pacino is lots of fun.

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08/20/02
Bob Bloom
Bob Bloom
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

On the whole Dick Tracy is a lot of fun, and fans of the offbeat may embrace it as a unique film amid a sea of movies that seem cloned from each other.

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01/01/00
Chris Hicks
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Deseret News, Salt Lake City

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12/08/06
Cole Smithey
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04/07/08
David Ansen
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Newsweek
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