Casablanca returns to theaters to enthrall us with Rick and Ilsa's war torn love, while also cementing itself as one of the best movies ever made.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Feb 14, 2025

With an incredibly gripping narrative, filled with unforgettable characters and endlessly quotable dialogue, Casablanca is a heart-wrenching and inspiring tale of sacrifice, love, integrity, and the power of patriotism. The greatest movie ever made.

| Jun 8, 2023

Casablanca is best enjoyed for its production values...

| Feb 9, 2023

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 for one of the greatest films ever made.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 12, 2022

Anyone who has seen the classic film, knows Bogart and Bergman had undeniable chemistry, which is part of what makes the movie as great as it is.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 8, 2022

... as some of those Axis Powers rear their heads up in America, seeking to take control as shouts of America First grow louder once more, a film like "Casablanca" can remind audiences of what happens when even the most jaded of us take up arms once more.

| Nov 7, 2022

Casablanca presents us with a film of extraordinary quality. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 1, 2022

“Casablanca” captures and utilizes so many things well. There’s a high level of suspense. There’s a touch of humor. There is a great realization of wartime tensions. And right in the middle of it all is what may be the best romance in cinema history.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

Casablanca, in fact, is starry with talent, pictorially often lovely and directed with considerable spirit by Michael Curtiz.

| Aug 8, 2022

It's far from a great film, but it has a special appealingly schlocky romanticism, and you're never really pressed to take its melodramatic twists and turns seriously.

| Jul 28, 2022

As soon as the main titles end, you are transported into a world filled with great performances and an incredibly sophisticated screenplay that takes advantage of every emotion you can think of.

| Original Score: 10/10 | May 25, 2022

It continues to fascinate audiences in a way that is beyond explanation, except to resolve that the picture seems to result from and fully encompass that somewhat fantastical notion of Movie Magic.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 20, 2022

Casablanca is as ineffectual as a Collier’s short story, but with one thing and another -- like Bergman, Veidt and Humphrey Bogart -- it is a pleasure of sorts.

| Feb 18, 2022

The plot is complicated in detail but clear in its issue; and it is in the presentation of the tortuous means by which the desperately-desired end is gained that the picture succeeds admirably.

| Feb 18, 2022

So topical is the dialogue that it might have been written yesterday, instead of six months ago.

| Feb 18, 2022

Some movies just have the perfect script, packed full of endlessly quotable lines that are effortlessly delivered by an extraordinary cast. A phenomenal movie, that everyone needs to have seen.

| Aug 24, 2021

Dooley Wilson gets his best screen role to date as Rick's piano player, and comes through with ease.

| Jul 13, 2021

Casablanca walks a thin line between classic romance and cheesy, but it stays true to its course. It could have very easily steered right into cheesy and stayed there, but because Curtiz had a vision it doesn't go there.

| Mar 24, 2021

This is an occasion where the final whole seriously and decisively outweighs the sum of its flawed, imperfect parts. Screenwriter Koch lived up to his pledge to "develop a serious melodrama of present-day significance."

| Feb 21, 2021

The classic pairing of Bogie and Bergman...

| Feb 18, 2021