Philip K. Scheuer
Philip K. Scheuer's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Los Angeles Times
Movies reviews only
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The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) |
The film is so far from the beaten path as to make its reception by the amusement-seeker extremely problematical. For the courage which inspired its production, all praise. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Apr 24, 2023
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Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) |
What distinguishes "Requiem" -- which pretends to be hard-boiled but it is really a softie at heart -- is the excellence of the portrayals by the four principal players. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Feb 10, 2023
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Back to Bataan (1945) |
[Back to Bataan achieves] that new steely-hard objectivity which Hollywood itself has finally caught up with in its approach to total war. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Feb 01, 2023
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Diabolique (1955) |
Through his sheer cunning at moviemaking, however, Clouzot soon breaks down our disbelief; and with the situation -- and us -- well in hand proceeds to tighten his vise so steadily that we are soon powerless to escape. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Jan 31, 2023
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The Lady Eve (1941) |
Primarily this is a comedy, and a funny about a fellow and a girl; what makes it extraordinary are the breathless vitality and the intuitive perception with which its creator. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Dec 29, 2022
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The Maltese Falcon (1941) |
[John Huston] has taken his own adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's hardboiled crime yarn and stretched it so taut that it fairly sings in your ears. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Nov 11, 2022
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Stalag 17 (1953) |
Billy Wilder, one of the most caustic-minded of Hollywood's writer-director-producers, has taken a stage hit by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski and preserved its essential humor and tragedy with no dulling of its corrosive edges. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Nov 05, 2022
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Shanghai Express (1932) |
Von Sternberg, by sheer hypnosis, chicanery, or what you will, continues to make every gesture, every spoken monosyllable, seem momentously important to the welfare of his pictures. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Oct 21, 2022
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La Strada (1954) |
Certainly the picture is brilliantly directed in the physical sense, well acted and hard to shake off in its after-effect. Of these plus qualities I am most appreciative: the doubts I raise are only relative to the picture's ultimate meaning. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Sep 14, 2022
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A Man for All Seasons (1966) |
The [film] is so professional, so brilliant an intellectual exercise and so moving an emotional one, so superior to the average "special" that it seems almost quibbling to state that I believe Bolt and Zinnemann could have made it greater than it is. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Sep 07, 2022
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Ten Modern Commandments (1927) |
There is a magic glamour about a tale of the footlights.... Hence, [Ten Modern Commandments], albeit it is weak in spots, will be found likable and entertaining. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Jun 25, 2022
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Gigi (1958) |
Gigi calls for all the carefree superlatives in the reviewer's usually begrudged lexicon: captivating, delightful, charming, touching, exhilarating. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Mar 25, 2022
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Cleo From 5 to 7 (1961) |
Miss Varda's cameraman, Jean Rabier, gets around everywhere -- by taxi, car, bus and on foot -- and we are with him every inch of the way. I can't imagine a more enjoyable way to see and hear the City of Light. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Feb 17, 2022
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My Fair Lady (1964) |
In the delicacy of George Cukor's direction and the playing of Miss Hepburn as Eliza and Rex Harrison as Prof. Higgins, I felt a more cutting poignancy, something closer to the original Pygmalion, than in the theater. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Feb 08, 2022
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Porgy and Bess (1959) |
The praise must go much beyond these technical marvels. Porgy and Bess would not be the masterpiece it is if the 70-mm. film and the seven-channel sound were not equaled by the human element. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Jan 20, 2022
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Nightmare Alley (1947) |
Edmund Goulding is a director who knows how to squeeze emotions out of players; and his production, repellent as its theme may be, develops considerable fascination up to the closing reel or so. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Dec 07, 2021
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The Sandpiper (1965) |
When I note, in this instance, that The Sandpiper is for adults I mean less that younger folk should be kept away from it than that younger folk will find it a bore and a drag. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Nov 24, 2021
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Them! (1954) |
In the parking lot outside the [theater], I came upon a bustling colony of ants near a crack in the sidewalk. I gave them a wide berth. I had just seen their oversized brothers and sisters in action... and I wanted no more trouble with them. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Sep 28, 2021
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The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) |
Here is a fascinating exercise in imagination, as terrifying as it is funny. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Sep 24, 2021
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Seconds (1966) |
It makes a dramatic actor out of the till now fashionably predictable farceur Rock Hudson. He's not great, but he puts together a pretty good fac-simile of a man suffering the tortures of the damned. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Sep 23, 2021
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The Thing (1951) |
While the Thing is encased In ice, the picture has a disturbing quality that is heightened by the objective, documentary treatment of the camera -- a real, ominous "What is it?" feeling. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Sep 21, 2021
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The Little Fugitive (1953) |
The photography is of a high order and occasionally, as when it catches the pattern of sunlight beneath the boardwalk, of real poetic quality. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Sep 16, 2021
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Gun Crazy (1950) |
Besides the extraordinary performance of [Peggy Cummins], the film serves up... some of the most sustained photographic suspense and the tightest cutting I have been privileged to encounter in an awful lot of picture-going. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Sep 14, 2021
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Black Orpheus (1959) |
Everything is overstated, but from this comes its power; and despite the overstatement l much of it is a work of art. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Jul 26, 2021
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The Pearl (1947) |
The Pearl is good cinema, less obliquely told and more compelling than John Ford's recent The Fugitive. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Jul 19, 2021
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The Women (1939) |
The sly-cat Russell delineation stands out, I'd say. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted May 24, 2021
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The Power and the Glory (1933) |
In this short space it is impossible to do more than touch on the remembered moments of Tom Garner's simple biography. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted May 13, 2021
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Pather Panchali (1955) |
Ray has caught the sights and sounds of nature all about them -- beauty side by side with ugliness -- with a poet's sensitivity. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted May 05, 2021
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962) |
One of the most magnificent pictures, if not the most magnificent, and one of the most exasperating. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Apr 20, 2021
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Rebecca (1940) |
Three women -- Judith Anderson as Mrs. Danvers, Florence Bates as the vulgar Mrs. Van Hopper, and Gladys Cooper as Beatrice augment an extraordinary gallery of types, and George Sanders portrays his most malignant heavy, Jack Favell. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Apr 12, 2021
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Convention City (1933) |
In the numerous assemblage, all the actors perform in characteristic style, Miss Astor perhaps impressing exceptionally by her brisk delineation of a saleswoman. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Jan 04, 2021
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The Man With the Golden Arm (1955) |
Preminger gives you the feeling of claustrophobia, to be sure, but that's not the only reason you'd like to get out. Along with in there is a growing sense of monotony and, in my case at least, an increasing disassociation with the whole shabby affair. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Dec 23, 2020
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Outrage (1950) |
I do not quarrel with the pertinence of these subjects to our lives today, but rather with the treatment of them. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Dec 15, 2020
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Circus World (1964) |
Director Hathaway uses a pro's skill continuously to blend laughs, pathos and excitement. Good show. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Dec 02, 2020
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Emil and the Detectives (1964) |
Slezak and his pals, known as the three skrinks, are amusing in their blundering progress and the many kids respond enthusiastically to Peter Tewksbury's direction. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Dec 02, 2020
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Maedchen in Uniform (1931) |
It is a simple picture, as great as it is simple. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Nov 18, 2020
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The Night of the Hunter (1955) |
It is doubtful that you will ever hear the old hymn, 'Learning,' again without recalling the gaunt, flapping figure of Preacher Powell as he lams it out in the dark night -- to the terror of the listening youngsters - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Jun 28, 2019
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Out of the Past (1947) |
The players acquit themselves histrionically if not morally. Mitchum, [Kirk] Douglas and the Misses [Jane] Greer and [Rhonda] Fleming are all commendable. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Jun 28, 2019
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Arise, My Love (1940) |
You'll like it, I promise. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Apr 29, 2019
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Psycho (1960) |
It is one of [Hitchcock's] most brilliantly directed shockers and also his most disagreeable. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Apr 22, 2019
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West Side Story (1961) |
Both Miss Wood and Miss Moreno are permitted to work up fine fervors in their acting, and they come through. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Jan 24, 2018
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Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) |
To me, Dr. Strangelove is an evil thing about an evil thing; you will have to make up your own mind about it. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Jul 06, 2010
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Double Indemnity (1944) |
Double Indemnity is a mystery story only in the sense that you can't wait to see what's going to happen next. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Aug 18, 2008
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Some Like It Hot (1959) |
Some Like It Hot, long- heralded and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis. Jack Lemmon and a host of old-timers from the gangster era plus Joe E. Brown, is often funny but not the unalloyed delight it was cracked up to be. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Sep 26, 2002
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