Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy has pop-art elements, imaginatively conceived montages, and a riff on crime-as-business that’s as pointed as the Godfather movies, if more family-friendly.

Boasting astonishing visual pizzazz (...) every scene offers optical overload as Beatty's yellow-clad crimefighter walks through astonishingly realised gangster locales to battle mob boss Al Pacino.

Warren Beatty's production of Dick Tracy approaches the material with the same fetishistic glee I felt when I was reading the strip.

The first of three movie serials based on Chester Gould's comic strip about the latern-jawed lawman, which debuted in 1931 as public interest in public enemies like Al Capone was on the upswing...