Casablanca (1942)

All Critics (62) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (73) | Rotten (2) | DVD (49)

Nothing short of an invasion could add much to Casablanca.

February 17, 2009 Full Review | Comments (48)

TIME Magazine

Top Critic

Film should be a solid moneymaker everywhere.

January 28, 2008 Full Review | Comments (3)

Variety Staff

Variety

Top Critic

Part of what makes this wartime Hollywood drama (1942) about love and political commitment so fondly remembered is its evocation of a time when the sentiment of this country about certain things appeared to be unified.

December 12, 2006 Full Review | Comment

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

Across seven decades, the Humphrey Bogart-Ingrid Bergman starrer has emerged as Americans' default favorite movie.

August 13, 2003 Comment

Douglas Pratt

Hollywood Reporter

Top Critic

Yes, indeed, the Warners here have a picture which makes the spine tingle and the heart take a leap.

May 20, 2003 Full Review | Comment

Bosley Crowther

New York Times

Top Critic

The greatest pleasure anyone can derive from this movie comes through simply watching it.

March 22, 2001 Full Review | Comment

James Berardinelli

ReelViews

Top Critic

Rick and Ilsa. Laszlo and the letters of transit. Captain Renault and his charming corruptibility. "As Time Goes By." "Here's looking at you, kid." You know the routine. So round up the usual accolades.

April 25, 2012 Full Review | Comment

Matt Brunson

Creative Loafing

The 70th anniversary blu-ray edition reaffirms Casablanca's status as a cult picture and Boggie's legendary performance

April 11, 2012 Full Review | Comment

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Its undying appeal may be the result of the Hollywood factory's skill, in those days, in fashioning something memorable out of virtually nothing.

February 10, 2012 Full Review | Comment

This is London

Even hardened cynics who might be impelled to dismiss it as a collection of button-pushing clichés will most likely get swept up in the all the unabashed romance.

February 9, 2012 Full Review | Comment

David Jenkins

Little White Lies

Every kid should see this Bogart classic.

December 22, 2010 Full Review | Comments (5)

Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

Although it was made in 1942, "Casablanca" is still the greatest romantic drama ever made.

April 19, 2009 Full Review | Comments (3)

Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

This is it. The best movie ever made.

January 20, 2009 Full Review | Comments (9)

David Cornelius

DVDTalk.com

This handsomely packaged three-disc DVD box set is jam-packed with extras, meant to please fans and cinema history buffs alike.

December 13, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Jeremiah Kipp

Slant Magazine

The movie has a peculiar magic to it, and it's in the richness of its details that mostly go unnoticed because of the film's pace.

December 13, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Jeremiah Kipp

Slant Magazine

Its new high-definition remastering and lossless sound should keep it fresh for a very long time to come. (70th Anniversary Blu-ray edition)

November 26, 2008 Full Review | Comment

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

It is the product of numerous accidents, all of them happy, and I laugh, cry and have my better instincts appealed to whenever I see it.

February 19, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Philip French

Observer [UK]

It is one of the most timeless of all movies in terms of topic, emotion, acting and motivation.

June 13, 2007 Full Review | Comments (6)

Steven Snyder

Zertinet Movies

There's a reason the world loves this wartime film, now digitally restored: more memorable dialogue than should be strictly legal, heartbreaking performances from the two leads and a plot that works with Swiss-watch precision.

February 16, 2007 Full Review | Comment

David Gritten

Daily Telegraph

• 1. Rick Blaine: Henri wants us to finish this bottle, then three more. He says he'll water his garden with champagne before he lets the Germans drink any of it.
  2. Capt. Louis Renault: If Rick has the letters, he is much too smart to let us find them there. [in the Cafe]
  3. Maj. Heinrich Strasser: You give him credit for too much cleverness. My impression was he's just another blundering American.
  4. Capt. Louis Renault: We mustn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.
  – Submitted by rick b (33 days ago)
• 1. Customer: Um, waiter? Will you ask Rick if he will have a drink with us?
  2. Carl Headwaiter: Madame he never drinks with customers. Never. I have never seen it.
  3. Customer: What makes saloon keepers so snobbish?
  4. German Banker: Perhaps if you tell him I run the second largest banking house in Amsterdam?
  5. Carl Headwaiter: Second largest? It wouldn't impress Rick. The leading banker in Amsterdam is the pastry chef in our kitchen.
  6. German Banker: We have something to look forward to.
  7. Carl Headwaiter: And his father's the bellboy.
  – Submitted by Mary Kathryn P (44 days ago)
• 1. Rick Blaine: Looks like beginning of a beautiful friendship!
  – Submitted by Jake C (49 days ago)
• 1. Rick Blaine: Looks like another beginning of a beautiful friendship!
  – Submitted by Jake C (49 days ago)
• 1. Rick Blaine: Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world she walks into mine.
  2. Ilsa: Play it Sam, let me hear 'As Time Goes By'.
  3. Sam: [to Illsa] You're no good for him, you're bad luck.
  4. Rick Blaine: They grab Ugarte and she walks in. Well, thats the way it goes, one in one out.
  5. Capt. Louis Renault: Realizing the importance of the case, my men are rounding up twice the usual number of suspects.
  6. Carl Headwaiter: The second largest? That wouldn't impress Rick. The leading banker in Amsterdam is now the pastry chef in our kitchen.
  – Submitted by rick b (2 months ago)