Meyer Levin (Patterson Murphy)
Meyer Levin (Patterson Murphy)'s reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Esquire Magazine
Movies reviews only
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Queen Christina (1933) |
The final eloseup of her face, suggesting a boat's figurehead, is austerely beautiful and the sum of all her art. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 05, 2020
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Counsellor-at-Law (1933) |
Of the current epidemic of lawyer-pictures, "Counsellor-at-Law" is-the best. John Barrymore doesn't fit the part as did Paul Muni, but Elmer Rice's excellent storycraftsmanship carries the picture through. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 05, 2020
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Fashions (1934) |
The best of the smart-written pictures is Fashions of 1934, set in the Paris dress salons, with William Powell playing fast and tricky as an American slicker. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 05, 2020
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Roman Scandals (1933) |
About ten percent of Roman Scandals is one hundred per cent entertainment. But the show on the whole is slow. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 05, 2020
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Nana (1934) |
The picture is stodgy, pretentious, and utterly without the Zola verve. One can't quite decide about Anna. Maybe it was the wrong picture, or maybe she really can't act. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 05, 2020
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Convention City (1933) |
Guy Kibbee, Adolph Menjou, Joan Blondell, and a mob of swell small-part actors keep the convention rolling on its belly, on its behind, on its ear. It's a perfect piece of native satire and a riot of entertainment. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 05, 2020
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Captains Courageous (1937) |
At once the most virile and the tenderest of recent Hollywood photoplays; should rank high on any list of best pictures of all time. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 05, 2020
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The Prince and the Pauper (1937) |
The kids are surrounded with a terrific cast, including Claude Rains, Errol Flynn, Barton MacLane... - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 05, 2020
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My Man Godfrey (1936) |
A frothy, frivolous farce... - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 05, 2020
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The Devil Doll (1936) |
...all this is wasted in a drearily complicated yarn. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 05, 2020
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Night Must Fall (1937) |
Surprise masterpiece performance by Robert Montgomery in a psychological chiller. Rosalind Russell also strong. Film similar but in every way superior to Love From A Stranger. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 05, 2020
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Nine Days a Queen (1936) |
A British production which is an excellent companion piece to Mary of Scotland. Between the two of them, you'll have a neat chunk of history. Nine Days a Queen is on the whole more satisfactory entertainment. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 05, 2020
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Elephant Boy (1937) |
...as in all Flaherty films, the camera becomes so intimate as to reveal the very soul of the subject. If elephants have souls, they're in that film. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 05, 2020
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Girls' Dormitory (1936) |
The film is negligible but for the introduction of Simone Simon, a young French actress who has the goods. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 05, 2020
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1952) |
Not very hearty attempt at a classic. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 05, 2020
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Internes Can't Take Money (1937) |
Cockeyed jumble of gangster and hospital picture ideas... - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 05, 2020
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Splendidly mounted, splendidly cast, but doesn't quite come off. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 05, 2020
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Love From a Stranger (1937) |
The climax is well-worth waiting for. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 05, 2020
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Josephine Hutchinson does the best work of her career as the heroine. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 05, 2020
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The Good Old Soak (1937) |
Wallace Beery stumbling around, and everyone else walking through. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 05, 2020
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His Brother's Wife (1936) |
Everyone in the picture is so awfully straight-backed... - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 05, 2020
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The Road to Glory (1936) |
...on the whole the film is a repetition of the usual baloney about courage and fortitude and patriotism. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 05, 2020
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Libeled Lady (1936) |
A four-ace cast in a scrambled-couple farce. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 04, 2020
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Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936) |
Introducing, with complete success, that mighty fine actress, Gladys George. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 04, 2020
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Give Me Your Heart (1936) |
Timed to the last eyelash by Roland Young, this is a classic bit of fun. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 04, 2020
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Ramona (1936) |
Another Technicolor hit. Watch for the scene where Loretta Young, locked in her room, turns her head toward the window... - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 04, 2020
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Dancing Pirate (1936) |
First dud for Technicolor. Romantic buffoonery with Charles Collins, a pretty Fred Astaire. Doesn't quite catch the gaily silly tone it attempts. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 04, 2020
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Things to Come (1936) |
Go out of your way to see Things to Come, for the occasional flashes of modern design that recall Metropolis... - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 04, 2020
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Top Hat (1935) |
Tops everything that Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers have done, and clicks as the gladdest, smoothest, truestto-medium movie musical ever made. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 04, 2020
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Anna Karenina (1935) |
Fine, fine, and super-fine, if the least bit archaic. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 04, 2020
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Big Brown Eyes (1936) |
Cary Grant and Joan Bennett and Alan Baxter, who is being murderously typed. Here was one of the two best young actors to appear this year...but he happened to do a good job on a gangster. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 04, 2020
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936) |
Add this to the long chain of Thin Man successors. Now it's Jean Arthur's turn to be the nosey wife to William Powell's amateur detective... - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 04, 2020
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One Rainy Afternoon (1936) |
Mary Pickford tried God and produced a French farce. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 04, 2020
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The Unguarded Hour (1936) |
Conventional upper-class who-done-it. Sat through the whole thing, fascinated, trying to figure out what has happened to Loretta Young. Looks the same, acts the same, but something is gone. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 04, 2020
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The Dark Angel (1935) |
Sidney Franklin's direction makes this a rather fine film, filled with subtle touches. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 04, 2020
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The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935) |
One of those strung together epics in which every star and ham in radio, films, or the varieties gets pasted into the footage. A sickroom scene by Charles Ruggles is a pip, but they even have elephants dancing. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 04, 2020
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Here Comes the Band (1935) |
An interesting idea was mauled in this one. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 04, 2020
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She Married Her Boss (1935) |
The surprise performance is by Melvyn Douglas, who turns out to be quite a funny drunk. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 04, 2020
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Red Salute (1935) |
Based upon the lie that leaders of radical student organizations are "paid foreign agitators," this is as clever a piece of reactionary propaganda as has come out of Hollywood. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 04, 2020
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The Gay Deception (1935) |
Done with quite a bit of spontaneous feeling, presenting bubbling, happy Francis Lederer. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 04, 2020
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Special Agent (1935) |
Another type of G-man in the same type of picture. Bette Davis. Interesting because it presents the income tax prosecution angle in serious light. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 04, 2020
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This Is My Affair (1937) |
Routine bank-robber melodrama... - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 01, 2020
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Movie Struck (1937) |
A fairly comic version of A Star Is Born, with Mischa Auer again proving that he ought to be in more pictures. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 01, 2020
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The Go-Getter (1937) |
Cappy Ricks story, idealizing servility under the guise of stickto-itiveness. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 01, 2020
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I Am Suzanne! (1933) |
I Am Suzanne does not get the effects of changing expression, of liveliness, to be found in sculpturally modelled puppets.... - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 01, 2020
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Gallant Lady (1934) |
The objectionable type of smart picture is best exemplified in Gallant Lady...the result, except for some very delightful sequences between Ann Harding and a child, is something one might expect of a high-school boy trying to write like Beverly Nichols... - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 01, 2020
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Hi, Nellie (1934) |
In sheer entertainment value, "Hi Nellie," the new Paul Muni picture, tops the month... - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted May 01, 2020
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Pride of the Marines (1945) |
Another enlistment poster, but fortunately lousy. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted Apr 23, 2020
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Three Godfathers (1936) |
Lewis Stone as the mysterious doc who decides Milton's poems are "a little too heavy" to lug across the desert, and Walter Brennan as the old desert rat, turn this into surprisingly fresh entertainment. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted Apr 23, 2020
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Thirteen Hours by Air (1936) |
Tight, speedy direction and smooth acting surmount the formula plot. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted Apr 23, 2020
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