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Philip K. Scheuer

Philip K. Scheuer's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Magnificent Seven (1960) 93% EDIT “...[The film is] likely to frighten, thrill and perplex most moviegoers, not necessarily in that order.” – Los Angeles Times Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Alice in Wonderland (1951) 83% EDIT “Carroll's humor turns out once again to be more audible than visual and better printed than either. The most Disney can do is to illustrate it like a 20th-century Tenniel and this he had done effectively and with the license permissible to an illustrator.” – Los Angeles Times Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Rebel Without a Cause (1955) 91% EDIT “The picture is one of intermittent violence, senseless yet instinctive and sometimes sickening to witness, but at the same time revealing of a kind of sad innocence, a yearning toward "belonging," that in one passage takes on an almost poetic quality. ” – Los Angeles Times Oct 25, 2025 Full Review White Heat (1949) 94% EDIT “White Heat is cunningly tooled for maximum shock effect.” – Los Angeles Times Apr 23, 2024 Full Review The Mad Miss Manton (1938) 84% EDIT “The Mad Miss Manton is a comedy belonging to that late un- lamented school of folderol which had, one supposes, already been given a decent burial. But R.-K.-O. presents it as though it were something brand new.” – Los Angeles Times Apr 22, 2024 Full Review The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) 100% EDIT “Guinness steers a delightful course between the subtle and the broad, drawing a portrait that is devastating and, if you choose to look at it that way, frightfully unmoral, or amoral, as well. ” – Los Angeles Times Apr 17, 2024 Full Review Queen of the Mob (1940) 56% EDIT “Blanche Yurka, absent from the screen for five years, dives into her role with such relish, such good old-fashioned melodramatic relish, that she has no problem scuttling off with the picture as well as the swag.” – Los Angeles Times Apr 17, 2024 Full Review She Done Him Wrong (1933) 93% EDIT “It is a rough, raucous, bawdy picture, Frankily and Johnnily prurient but so vitalized, so authoritatively and effectively staged and acted, that it becomes one of the more exciting exhibits of recent weeks.” – Los Angeles Times Apr 15, 2024 Full Review Westward the Women (1951) 69% EDIT “Westward is entertaining, mind you. It's just no epic.” – Los Angeles Times Feb 28, 2024 Full Review The Lone Ranger (1956) 90% EDIT “The Lone Ranger is now, for the first time, a theater movie -- and it puts the western right back where it was in the galloping flickers, be fore words like '"psychological" and "offbeat" came into the screen lexicon.” – Los Angeles Times Nov 9, 2023 Full Review The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) 86% EDIT “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 Apr 24, 2023 Full Review Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) 89% EDIT “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 Feb 10, 2023 Full Review Back to Bataan (1945) 86% EDIT “[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 Feb 1, 2023 Full Review Diabolique (1955) 95% EDIT “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 Jan 31, 2023 Full Review The Lady Eve (1941) 99% EDIT “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 Dec 29, 2022 Full Review The Maltese Falcon (1941) 99% EDIT “ [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 Nov 11, 2022 Full Review Stalag 17 (1953) 91% EDIT “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 Nov 5, 2022 Full Review Shanghai Express (1932) 96% EDIT “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 Oct 21, 2022 Full Review La Strada (1954) 98% EDIT “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 Sep 14, 2022 Full Review A Man for All Seasons (1966) 89% EDIT “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 Sep 7, 2022 Full Review Ten Modern Commandments (1927) 90% EDIT “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 Jun 25, 2022 Full Review Gigi (1958) 90% EDIT “Gigi calls for all the carefree superlatives in the reviewer's usually begrudged lexicon: captivating, delightful, charming, touching, exhilarating. ” – Los Angeles Times Mar 25, 2022 Full Review Cleo From 5 to 7 (1961) 93% EDIT “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 Feb 17, 2022 Full Review My Fair Lady (1964) 94% EDIT “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 Feb 8, 2022 Full Review Porgy and Bess (1959) 71% EDIT “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 Jan 20, 2022 Full Review
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