Bogart and Hawks, the veterans with a lot of pedigree, deserve an even larger share of the blame, as they didn’t pull their weight in a situation where they had all sorts of resources handed to them.

| Feb 2, 2023

Bogie and Bacall make an engaging onscreen duo, delivering their lines with just the right amount of cynicism and coyness.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 15, 2020

The effortless chemistry between Bogart and Bacall help distract from the fact that To Have and Have Not has little more going for it.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 29, 2018

The dialogue crackles (including the legendary "whistle / blow" line), Bacall sizzles, and Bogart captivates.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 21, 2018

A victory of style and star power over substance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 1, 2016

While there are moments implying breezy, spontaneous improvisation in virtually all Hawks pictures, no other has such an all-pervasive sense of a floating party...

| Mar 14, 2015

Bacall slinks onto the screen asking Bogart for matches and walks away with the entire movie.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 19, 2014

In many ways the ultimate Hawks film: clear, direct, and thoroughly brilliant.

| Aug 15, 2014

Lauren Bacall has cinema personality to burn, and she burns both ends against an unusually little middle.

| Aug 15, 2014

Unfussily directed, To Have And Have Not is packed with memorable exchanges in shadowy interiors, and showcases the husky-voiced Bacall at her most insolent and alluring.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 15, 2014

Stylish and loaded with humor.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 15, 2014

This one is a must: they don't come better.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 15, 2014

Asking an audience to laugh for two hours at the delirium tremens of a man suffering from alcoholism is a grisly thing.

| Aug 15, 2014

Bogart is in his usual metier, a tough guy who, no less, has the facility of making a dame go for him, instead of he for her. That's where Bacall comes in.

| Mar 16, 2009

"You know how to whistle, don't you? You just put your lips together and blow," said Lauren Bacall to Bogey in this entertaining follow-up to Casablanca, thus launching the onscreen (and offscreen) romance that made them a popular team in the 1940s.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 13, 2008

It owes more to Casablanca than it does to Hemingway.

| Original Score: A | Jul 10, 2008

Has a slick of bestial sweat to it that promises that the explosion of really naughty stuff is looming.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 9, 2007

Bogie and Bacall fell in love while making the film, and their scenes reflect this, giving To Have and Have Not a degree of emotional presence that is unusual in the 'bite on the bullet' world of Hawks.

| Feb 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 9, 2005

[Bogey & Bacall's] onscreen chemistry is palpable, all but overshadowing the fictional back story that made Rick and Ilsa's dance in Casablanca so memorable.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 17, 2005