…not all old films are good films, but The African Queen still passes muster with vibrant flying colours in 2024…arguably the first modern action movie, this is no ersatz jungle cruise, but a bona fide classic..

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 15, 2024

...the film masterfully blends action and humor, with more sentimental moments. Its exotic locales were filmed on location in Africa.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 27, 2024

The intense drama, humor, romance and authenticity which African Queen packs make it solid film fare.

| Jan 16, 2024

The African Queen serves as a fantastic display of the virtues of old-fashioned craftsmanship. It’s a solid film and it has the sort of broad appeal that great blockbusters need to possess.

| Feb 1, 2023

The African Queen is one of the greatest films ever made and remains a one of the gold standards for the adventure genre.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 1, 2022

This is a comedy, a love story, and a tale of adventure, and it is one of the most charming and entertaining movies ever made.

| Jul 6, 2022

Terrific chemistry in this classic adventure

| Apr 7, 2022

Thus out of something that could have turned into a saga of patriotism, Huston has made a personal adventure... At the end of this absurd odyssey, it is easy to imagine Sisyphus in domestic bliss.

| Apr 4, 2022

If you go to see African Queen expecting heavyweight drama, you're In for a disappointment.

| Jan 15, 2022

A film that can be watched again and again for its lighthearted characters, abundant humor, and magical chemistry.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Aug 15, 2020

The action scenes are expertly handled, the film was a hit and Hollywood liked it so much that it remade it in 1975 as Rooster Cogburn, with John Wayne opposite Hepburn.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 25, 2019

The result, although considerably more melodramatic in spots than C. S. Forester's novel, is a vastly enjoyable movie directed by John Huston. It was filmed, of course, right in Africa.

| Oct 24, 2019

A classic journey adventure, with a series of obstacles that they meet with resilience and resourcefulness, but the story is how they move from "Mr. Allnut" and "Miss" to Charlie and Rosie, opposites who find strength, support and unexpected love...

| Nov 3, 2018

This movie is in the DNA of rom-coms and buddy-cop comedies and fish-out-of-water tales and Indiana Jones (he bickers and fights Germans too! Plus, dirt beard!).

| Aug 25, 2017

The African Queen is top flight entertainment, delightful, different, always interesting.

| Feb 20, 2017

Humphrey Bogart finally won his Best Actor Oscar. It's an amusing performance, though it doesn't compare to his work in High Sierra, Casablanca, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, In a Lonely Place, The Caine Mutiny and a handful of other indelible turns.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 18, 2014

| Original Score: A+ | Feb 14, 2012

A ripping, gripping yarn, a surprisingly erotic love story and, as it happens, a premonition of Herzog's Fitzcarraldo.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 3, 2011

[A] grand, propulsive and plumly-restored slice of Technicolor derring-do.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 3, 2011

What an inspired pairing! And to think the roles of Charlie Allnutt and Rose Sayer were nearly played by David Niven and Bette Davis.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 3, 2011