Charade (1963)

All Critics (38) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (33) | Rotten (3) | DVD (29)

What's going on is sort of confused.

February 4, 2009 Full Review

TIME Magazine

Top Critic

A terrifically entertaining comedy-thriller.

February 4, 2009 Full Review

Dave Kehr

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

Firsttime teaming of Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, a natural, gives the sophisticated romantic caper an international appeal, plus the selling points of adventure, suspense and suberb comedy.

December 11, 2008 Full Review

Robert B. Frederick

Variety

Top Critic

Donen's typically slick comedy thriller, ingeniously scripted by Peter Stone, is a mammoth audience teaser.

February 9, 2006 Full Review

Time Out

Top Critic

I tell you, this light-hearted picture is full of such gruesome violence.

May 9, 2005 Full Review

Bosley Crowther

New York Times

Top Critic

Made when the studio system was on its last legs, Charade still feels fresh, quick-witted, nothing like the artificial, airless Hollywood pictures of its time.

January 1, 2000 Full Review

Charles Taylor

Salon.com

Top Critic

A novel, auteur-driven film populated with reliably charismatic stars; even at the age of 50 it leaves most modern produce in the dust. It was also a hit. Five decades later, why has Hollywood not learnt their lesson?

January 14, 2013 Full Review

Simon Miraudo

Quickflix

Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn transcend several genres

April 18, 2012 Full Review

Kevin Carr

7M Pictures

It's glossy, charming, silly, and far too self-aware to be at all thrilling.

February 4, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Ian Nathan

Empire Magazine

Charming comedy-romance-thriller pairing Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, intelligently scripted by Peter Stone and directed in distinctly Hitchcockian style by Stanley Donen.

February 4, 2009 Full Review

TV Guide's Movie Guide

even though the age difference is kinda weird the romance works

March 2, 2008

Stefan Birgir Stefansson

sbs.is

A smart Hitchcockian thriller.

April 13, 2006 Full Review

Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Smooth Donen thriller showcasing Cary and Audrey.

March 24, 2006

Steve Crum

Video-Reviewmaster.com

Stanley Donen's stylishly elegant, largely entertaining romance-thriller teams Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn (then at the height of their careers) for the first and only time.

August 8, 2005 Full Review

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

The star power of Cary and Audrey is electrifying in this great comic thriller

October 7, 2004

James Sanford

Kalamazoo Gazette

An appealing hybrid of romantic comedy and spy thriller. It's one of the best Hitchcock films that Hitchcock had nothing to do with.

May 23, 2004

Dan Lybarger

Nitrate Online

Charade is part thriller, part comedy and part old-fashioned romance, and classic-movie lovers will find it irresistable.

May 14, 2004

Forrest Hartman

Reno Gazette-Journal

Sparkles with all the vigor of freshly uncorked champagne.

April 7, 2004 Full Review

Matt Brunson

Creative Loafing

Often described as “the best Hitchcock movie Hitchcock never made,” Charade stars Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in a sparkling thriller with overtones of screwball romantic comedy — or is it the other way around?

May 30, 2003 Full Review

Steven D. Greydanus

Decent Films Guide

The sexual chemistry between Hepburn and Grant, when set against Charade's tumultuous backdrop of shifting identities, makes this movie an enduring favorite.

March 10, 2003 Full Review

Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Chronicle

Everything about it is a little bit cleverer and a little bit better than it has to be. Thanks must be paid to both Donen and screenwriter Peter Stone.

November 5, 2002 Full Review

Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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