Dick Tracy
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution | Release Date: June 15, 1990 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
68
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Generally favorable reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
16
Mixed:
8
Negative:
0
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60
EmpireIan Freer
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. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Too much of the story is unfelt and mechanical—the grimly humorless Tracy (Beatty) is never very convincing as an object of desire or admiration. Read full review
50
SlateKeith Phipps
Beatty made a film with visionary elements but without a guiding vision. Read full review
50
Washington PostRita Kempley
Dick 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. Read full review
50
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
Though it looks ravishing, Warren Beatty's longtime pet project is a curiously remote, uninvolving film. Read full review
50
The Seattle TimesJohn Hartl
It's a pointless, $30 million mediocrity with a disengaged star-director at its center. [15 Jun 1990, p.3]
40
Washington PostDesson Thomson
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. Read full review
40
Rolling StonePeter Travers
After all the hype, the movie of Dick Tracy turns out to be a great big beautiful bore. Read full review
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