Directed with an arched eyebrow by Stanley Donen, the film was released just weeks after John F Kennedy's assassination, giving shellshocked Americans a welcome bite of Hollywood candyfloss.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 12, 2020

Charade allows itself to get slightly tangled up in its own plot.

| Mar 3, 2020

Few thrillers create as much sheer joy and happiness as Charade, in which Cary Grant spoofs his Alfred Hitchcock persona, Audrey Hepburn exudes her usual magnetic charm, and Paris is as scenic as ever.

| Mar 3, 2020

If you haven't seen Charade, you really need to.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 17, 2011

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

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 4, 2009

What's going on is sort of confused.

| Feb 4, 2009

A terrifically entertaining comedy-thriller.

| Feb 4, 2009

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.

| Dec 11, 2008

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

| Feb 9, 2006

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

| May 9, 2005

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?

| Original Score: A- | May 30, 2003

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

| Mar 10, 2003

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.

| Jan 1, 2000