1990 · adventure · comedy · crime
Dick Tracy
Directed by Warren Beatty1h 45m1990
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
Our read: Dick Tracy (1990) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded adventure · comedy · crime entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured adventure / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- twisty
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