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  Review by Timcop ★★★★★ 3

  Murder, romance, high society, disturbing levels of alcoholism, an abundance of dog reaction shots: this is cinema.

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★ 8

  I miss parties

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  Review by eely ★★★★½ 1

  this movie has everything i love: 
  - detectives
  - banter 
  - dogs
  - christmas
  - sarcasm
  - murder

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  Review by eely ★★★★½ 3

  if you took a shot every time nick has a drink of various alcoholic beverages throughout this movie you would die painfully and nick and nora would reluctantly solve your murder.

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  Review by Lou (rhymes with wow!) ★★★★ 8

  One of my favourite comedies of all time. Crime solving has never been done more frivolously. I think it's just wonderful how well Powell and Loy play off each other. The dialogue is so unbelievably snappy that it still feels fresh almost 90 years later! A testament to great writing.

  Nora: All right! Go ahead! Go on! See if I care! But I think it's a dirty trick to bring me all the way to New York just to make a widow of me.
  Nick: You wouldn't be a widow long.
  Nora: You bet I wouldn't!
  Nick: Not with all your money.

  So much alcohol is consumed in this movie, it's a miracle the case was solved. They sure were…

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  Review by Sally Jane Black 2

  It might be impossible to hate this. It oozes charm. Actually, it must be possible to hate this, but you have to really, really hate this sort of charm. It's a bit boojy, so I get it, but man, they're such a charming pair. The plot, well, the plot is a bit... thin (I can't help myself), with its central mystery not being so much obvious as it is unimportant. The process of investigation isn't the focus so much as the fun had in investigating. There are crack jokes and dialogue, some fun visual moments, and a lot of great interplay between the Charleses. The humor is the focus. It's light, but it's not utterly insubstantial.

  It's nice to see…

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  Review by Will Menaker ★★★★

  The couple that drinks together, stays together. Nick and Nora are my favorite alcoholics and married couple. Also, Asta is a good boy. Truly goals for any relationship to have as much fun and be as witty and playful with each other and their dog as Nick and Nora.

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★½ 2

  86

  Effortless charm. What a lovely little comfort movie.

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  Review by Ian West ★★★★½ 3

  The Delightfully drunken Nick and Nora Charles (and Asta!) are my favorite on screen couple. Getting hammered at parties and solving mysteries like it’s nobodies business... never forgetting to pour another glass of spirits. Myrna Loy and William Powell are to die for, and have some of the best chemistry, acted or non acted, that I’ve ever seen. <3

  One of my favorite films of the 1930’s also happens to be a fun New Years Romp as well, and if you played a drinking game every time Nick or Nora drank, well, you’d be dead! Also, this gets an extra half star because my Great Uncle Cesar is in it, and looks dashing as hell.

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  Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★★½ 2

  66/100

  Second viewing, first since 1992 (during my initial blitz through the canon after moving to New York and discovering its rep houses). Kinda flabbergasted by how little Nick + Nora there actually is here—movie's on fire whenever Powell and Loy banter it up, but I'd forgotten that "chivalry" keeps requiring Nora to be sidelined and that Hammett's typically convoluted mystery plot regularly grinds the repartee to a halt. Basically two magnificent, iconic characters trapped in a forgettable programmer. Turns out that's more than enough.

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  Review by grace spelman ★★★★½

  I miss flirting so much

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  Review by sydney ★★★★

  myrna loy doing the nose scrunch is the cutest thing in cinematic history