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Casablanca

Oscar™ Best Picture - Winning Movies

Casablanca

1942

Michael Curtiz

Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains ...

8.4

99,043

Drama. Romance Humphrey Bogart plays Richard "Rick" Blaine, a cynical but good-hearted American whose café is the gathering place for everyone from the French Police to the black market to the Nazis. When his long-lost love, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), surfaces in Casablanca with her Resistance leader husband, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), Rick is pulled into both a love triangle and a web of political intrigue. Ilsa and Victor need to escape from ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	David Denby The New Yorker	"Casablanca is the most sociable, the most companionable film ever made. Life as an endless party"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Seeing the film over and over again, year after year, I find it never grows over-familiar. It plays like a favorite musical album; the more I know it, the more I like it (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"A highly entertaining and even inspiring film"	POS
United States	Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"[The] greatest of all Hollywood World War II adventure romances"	POS
United Kingdom	Telegraph	"'Casablanca' is the quintessential studio-era production, where stock elements and unpromising source material (...) coalesced into a classic. It has haunting songs, bittersweet emotion and excellent hats"	POS
United States	Jeremiah Kipp Slant	"The film has a peculiar magic to it, and because of its pace the richness of its sense of detail often goes unnoticed (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"This great romantic noir is still grippingly powerful (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	The Hollywood Reporter	"A drama that lifts you right out of your seat (...) A more accomplished cast of players cannot be imagined"	POS
United States	Variety	"Fine performances, engrossing story and neat direction"	POS
United Kingdom	Angie Errigo Empire	"The most iconic War romance in cinema history and deservedly so. This is a perfect blend of a tight script, stylish cinematography and cult performances from Bogart and Bergman (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"'Casablanca' accomplishes that which only a truly great film can: enveloping the viewer in the story, forging an unbreakable link with the characters, and only letting go with the end credits (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Serena Donadoni Village Voice	"'Casablanca' is a sharply political movie, displaying overt admiration for anti-fascist activists and sympathy for refugees while subtly probing the corrosiveness of appeasement"	POS
United Kingdom	Neil Smith Total Film	"The director turns the Warner backlot into a gloriously romantic vision of WW2-era Morocco crammed with real-life European exiles and larger-than-life character actors (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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