Key Largo manages to keep audiences on their toes or at the edge of their seat from start to finish.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 11, 2024

Loosely based on Maxwell Anderson’s 1939 play, “Key Largo” took the form of a brilliant crime drama anchored by a great cast and superb performances.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 22, 2022

The real stars of the film are mind games and manipulation, sharply brought to life by the restrained verbal feuding between Bogart and Robinson.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 13, 2020

Key Largo (1948) is one of the more entertaining crime-gangster melodramas from Warner Bros. The intelligent, exciting, theatrical, but moody, downbeat crime drama-thriller (and melodramatic film noir)...

| Original Score: A+ | Sep 29, 2019

...there's an inherent theatricality in the situation of strangers involuntarily sharing a small space...

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 26, 2019

It's pure irony that perhaps the objective best Bogart and Bacall film has their least satisfying onscreen relationship.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 29, 2018

This is surprisingly staid for a Huston film. Still, the top-notch cast punches it across, and the swirling storm raging outside the hotel provides an interesting backdrop.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 21, 2018

A classy little '40s chamber piece that is competently handled by writer-director John Huston and supremely well acted by its starry cast.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 16, 2018

First seen soaking in a tub while chomping on a cigar, Robinson arises from the water to put a stranglehold on the film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 27, 2012

Trapped in a country estate by an impending storm, a mobster attempts to lay low before escaping from the police, but takes a risky gambit holding Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall hostage.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 15, 2011

Claire Trevor won a Supporting Oscar for playing the alcoholic mistress of Edward G. Robinson's gangster in John Huston's taut crimer starring Bogart.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 23, 2011

A little windy and rhetorical for my taste, but still one of John Huston's best efforts.

| Apr 8, 2008

Perfeclty tense atmosphere and performances, with the sparks flying between Bogart and Bacall.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 8, 2008

Huston's wayward talent seldom lacked energy.

| Apr 8, 2008

Edward G. Robinson deserves special praise.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 8, 2008

Emphasis is on tension in the telling, and effective use of melodramatic mood has been used to point up the suspense.

| Apr 8, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 19, 2007

Great cast headed by Bogart in Huston classic.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 7, 2007

Like the similarly sweaty, claustrophobic 12 Angry Men, Key Largo is a rare adaptation of a stage play in which the physical constraints of the stagebound source material are a strength rather than a weakness.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 9, 2006

Although the characters are basically stereotypes, they are lent the gift of life by a superlative cast.

Full Review | Jun 24, 2006