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Rating: 9/10 (10 December 2009)

Casablanca has been regarded through the decades as about as near to a perfect picture as an audience could ever wish to behold. Being set during a global war that was right in front of a global population's face; being centered around individualized conflicts that a global population can relate to (love, right/wrong, risky entrepreneurship); and having the story be acted out by actors and actresses with 2nd to none self control (Humphrey Bogart), the film has absolutely all the ingredients for a classic. I could only imagine the "date movie" potential a film like this could have. I think of more modern films that try to incorporate the war setting with comparable themes but none are so in-depth and all inclusive as Casablanca.