Boxing Helena
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings
- Starring: Julian Sands, Sherilyn Fenn
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- Director: Jennifer Chambers Lynch
- Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Romance
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Positive: 1 out of 14
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Mixed: 4 out of 14
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Negative: 9 out of 14
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75Not as worthless as you may have heard. [10 Sept 1993]
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60Ultimately, Ms Lynch has nowhere to take her erotic parable except to a dead end, but she makes the unfolding of the story a spooky, engrossing process. [9 Sept 1993, p.C1]
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This film has all the pyschological depth of a wading pool. Anything you've imagined without seeing the movie is likely more interesting than what's here.
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30Lynch's fatal flaw is in her handling of the leads. Sands is made to play his single-minded romantic as a spineless, groveling wimp, while Helena is a one-note ice queen for more than half the movie, never reacting realistically to her predicament. The characters are so lacking in dimension and unsympathetic that it's hard to care about them or their story.
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Positive: 3 out of 4
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Mixed: 1 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4
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Whitneymuse8A movie filled with irony; So, good; I still remember it today.
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TonyP8
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