Roger Ebert’s Review of ‘Dick Tracy’

From Roger Ebert’s 1990 review:

Another of the movie’s opening shots establishes, with glorious excess, the Tracy universe. The camera begins on a window, and pulls back, and moves up until we see the skyline of the city, and then it seems to fly through the air, turning as it moves so that we sweep above an endless urban vista. Skyscrapers and bridges and tenements and elevated railways crowd each other all the way to the distant horizon, until we realize this is the grandest and most squalid city that ever was. It’s more than a place: It’s the distillation of the idea of City — of the vast, brooding, mysterious metropolis spreading in all directions forever, concealing millions of lives and secrets.

Last’s night thing had me thinking I should rewatch Dick Tracy, which I’m pretty sure I’ve only seen once, in the theater back when I was in high school. Ebert’s review seals the deal.

★ Monday, 27 February 2023