Easily disputed as the best film in history

Rating: Null/10 (22 April 2004)

Casablanca is one of the best films known to modern man.
The entire set is based on the small, french owned town on the coast of
Morocco, where refugees running from Nazi Germany's oppression can stay
until their visa's and other legal documents can be filed for safe transport out of the eastern hemisphere to America.
The thing that really makes this film an original is the fact that it has almost all genres of story telling thrown into the mix of a current event film. It has love, mystery, suspense, among countless other themes presented to the audience to
keep the seats filled and the tickets sold.
This is a classic of classics, and runs up on the list higher (in the opinion of the reviewer) than Citizen Kane. Albeit, the film does have some drawbacks, such as lengthy dialogues and some quite sappy scenes between the main
characters (as well as some somewhat confusing plot points that are easily
avoided if the viewer knows his or her history) and a quite lengthy flashback.
But overall, this film is top of the line for the 20th century, and it only keeps the audience guessing what else the mystical town of Hollywood has in store for us in the future.