Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Abegail Noëlle While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

alan-48750 There is no other word to describe this one...... simply lovely

kinkaid-54403 First Noire film I have ever watched, growing up in a generation of coloured films and 3D! But never have I seen a movie remotely like Casablanca this is an absolute masterpiece, hands down the best movie I have ever seen.

robfwalter What I found most extraordinary about this film is the way it manages to engage right from the start. Within ten minutes, the plot had me enthralled, the characters had me emotionally committed and I was fascinated by the moral questions.How will Viktor Lazlo escape the Nazis? How complete is Rick's moral degradation? Is there any limit to the depravity of the Vichy regime's representative in Morocco? What happened in Paris between Rick and Ilsa? These questions are all addressed simultaneously as the action unfolds with hypnotic acting by both Bogart and Bergman and brilliantly tight plotting.Some of the other actors are not quite up to the standard of the leads, but I think this is the way films were made at the time, with broader acting by minor parts than we usually see in films today.So much of this film is now cliche, but that's because it defined modern Hollywood cinema and thus had a tremendous impact on Western culture. With some essential cultural artefacts, this ubiquity can make them seem a bit tired or over the top, but Casablanca is so perfectly pitched and moves along at such a wonderful pace that it transcends its own transcendence to be what Hollywood has always aspired to - pure entertainment.

cinemajesty Movie Review: "Casablanca" (1942)Eastern-block immigrant Michael Curtiz (1886-1962) learning his craft in directing silent movies in 1920s, gets the ultimate shot into Hollywood's major league ingnited by Warner Bros. Studios, led by film executive Jack L. Warner (1892-1978), who reigned with iron-hand the studio lot in Burbank, California from ancient studio-capital of Los Angeles building silent era from 1918, regarding Charles Chaplin and Mary Pickford's company of United Artists (from 1922) as the spinnacle of motion picture artworks, to his resignation in 1972, having structured a still-prevailing system of first-look-exclusives with non-affiliated world-wide operating film production companies.The highest-regarded film stars of an golden Hollywood era, when the page had been the point of imagination despite the more and more invading trail-and-error digital correction works rampaging through-out any given contemporary event-movie post-production, when screenplays must prevail as instrument of solid production pillars of wisdom toward the final cut as here stunningly achieved with "Casablanca" in an Academy-Award-winning editorial of a 100 Minutes that even the fierces critics due to heavy drinking, smoking, gambling and the never-missing Champagne-sweeting Parisian flashback legendary portrayed by Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) and Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957), who got so superbly supported to satisfying conclusion with actors of a decade as Claude Rains, Paul Henreid and Peter Lorre, playing their hearts out in literally-principal photography times of raging war battles around the world."Casablanca" remains even with delayed glories of being arguably the Best Picture of the 1940s as further denied to confront competitive "Mrs. Miniver" (1942) directed by William Wyler at the Academy-Award ceremony in its 15th edition on March 4th 1943, due to indecisive New York critics at a November 1942 World Premiere, neglecting a cinematic masterpiece in picture and sound for another year of recognition.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)