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24 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertWarren Beatty's production of Dick Tracy approaches the material with the same fetishistic glee I felt when I was reading the strip.
- 90Time OutTime OutA spectacular movie whose technical achievements - notably the sharp editing - will surely provide a gauge by which subsequent comic strip films are judged.
- 80The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyDick Tracy has just about everything required of an extravaganza: a smashing cast, some great Stephen Sondheim songs, all of the technical wizardry that money can buy (plus the knowledge of how and when to use it), and a screenplay (credited to Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr.) that observes the fine line separating true comedy from lesser camp.
- 80NewsweekDavid AnsenNewsweekDavid AnsenDick Tracy is a class act: simple, stylish, sophisticated, sweet.
- 75TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineSurprisingly sweet and good-natured, Dick Tracy is a highly stylized piece of fluff that's easier to digest than the ponderous pretensions of the equally over-hyped Batman.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanBeatty and his team of collaborators have heightened the vibrantly tawdry urban night world of Chester Gould’s classic comic strip.
- 50Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumToo much of the story is unfelt and mechanical—the grimly humorless Tracy (Beatty) is never very convincing as an object of desire or admiration.
- 50SlateKeith PhippsSlateKeith PhippsBeatty made a film with visionary elements but without a guiding vision.
- 50Washington PostRita KempleyWashington PostRita KempleyDick Tracy is an ambitiously vainglorious effort, expensive, beautifully appointed, but at its core empty as a spent bullet. It asks us to read these comics without a grain of salt or a pinch of irony.
- 40Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonTracy 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.