Boxing Helena: Critic Reviews
MovieWeb: 0 reviews
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RottenTomatoes: 30 reviews
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Janet Maslin New York Times (Top Critic)60s. Lynch has both talent and a point. Her film is by no means the gory, exploitative quasi-pornography that it sounds like from afar.Full Review » 9 years ago
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Joe Brown Washington Post (Top Critic)Helena might have been salvageable as a so-bad-it's-good camp goof -- if only it weren't so boring.Full Review » 12 years ago
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Rita Kempley Washington Post (Top Critic)What Ms. Lynch has given us is a prettied-up snuff movie.Full Review » 12 years ago
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Variety Staff Variety (Top Critic)It's probably just as well that last-minute dropouts Kim Basinger or Madonna didn't take the title role, as the presence of a star lurking powerlessly on the little platform no doubt would have been distracting and more laughable than it [is] now.Full Review » 4 years ago
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John Hartl Film.com (Top Critic)Fenn's slow-motion fountain-bathing scene looks like an over-the-top TV commercial, the cop-out finale is a film-school cliche, and the male characters are so one-dimensional and pathetic that the movie could inspire a Men's Action Coalition.Full Review » 12 years ago
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James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)50It's just not a particularly good motion picture.Full Review » 12 years ago
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Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)What Lynch, who wrote the script at 19, sees as high drama is really high camp.Full Review » 11 years ago
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Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com20Full Review » 4 years ago
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TV Guide's Movie Guide38[An] ambitious but unsuccessful curiosity.Full Review » 4 years ago
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Rumsey Taylor Not Coming to a Theater Near YouIt is curious that Lynch, having taken so many visual cues from her father, has an inadequate grasp of this compassion. The paralyzing obsession that permeates many of her father's works, on the other hand, she comprehends well.Full Review » 5 years ago
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Time OutGrotesquely misconceived.Full Review » 6 years ago
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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com20Prior to its world premiere at Sundance, Boxing Helena, the debut of David Lynch's daughter Jennifer, was the hottest film in the festival; two hours later, the movie was dead.Full Review » 6 years ago
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Eric Melin Scene-Stealers.com40silly attempt at quirky dramaFull Review » 7 years ago
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Dan Fienberg Zap2it.com40Fairly provocative and not nearly as bad as critics claimed when it was released, but still intellectually half-baked.Full Review » 7 years ago
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Michael Szymanski Hollywood.com80Full Review » 7 years ago
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Pablo Villaca Cinema em Cena60Durante boa parte do tempo, discute de forma interessante diversos temas relativos ao amor, sexo e posse - apenas para desmoronar nos cinco minutos finais.Full Review » 7 years ago
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Alex Sandell Juicy Cerebellum60Quirky and underrated.Full Review » 8 years ago
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Victoria Alexander FilmsInReview.com40What ever happened to Jennifer Lynch?Full Review » 8 years ago
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Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com63Engagingly morbid with moments of power--that is, until it falls apart beyond repair during its final moments.Full Review » 8 years ago
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Nell Minow Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies20Full Review » 9 years ago
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Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette60Full Review » 9 years ago
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Joshua Tanzer Offoffoff20Full Review » 9 years ago
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Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)0Stupefyingly bad. Amazingly bad. Alarmingly bad.Full Review » 9 years ago
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John J. Puccio DVDTown.com20Full Review » 10 years ago
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Clint Morris Moviehole20The most ridiculous film a critic has had to sit throughFull Review » 10 years ago
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