Quirky and underrated.
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08/05/04
Boxing Helena (1993)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:6
Rotten:24
Average Rating:3.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Dr. Nick Cavanaugh grew up at the mercy of his mocking, sensual, and neglectful mother. As an adult, he fantasizes about women who entice, taunt, and reject him and finds the epitome of cold... [More]
Starring: Julian Sands, Sherilyn Fenn, Bill Paxton, Art Garfunkel
Director: Jennifer Lynch
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Reviews for Boxing Helena
s. Lynch has both talent and a point. Her film is by no means the gory, exploitative quasi-pornography that it sounds like from afar.
05/20/03
Top CriticThere are some problems with this story, but it does show promise for Lynch.
01/01/00
No review available.
09/08/05
No review available.
05/05/03
It 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.
10/30/07
[An] ambitious but unsuccessful curiosity.
02/08/08
Grotesquely misconceived.
06/24/06
The film is superficial and silly, unsuccessful in all of the various tones she attempts.
01/01/00
No review available.
04/05/08
Fairly provocative and not nearly as bad as critics claimed when it was released, but still intellectually half-baked.
09/17/05
Extremely disappointing.
01/01/00
Prior 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.
05/02/06
silly attempt at quirky drama
10/01/05
It's just not a particularly good motion picture.
01/01/00
Top CriticHelena might have been salvageable as a so-bad-it's-good camp goof -- if only it weren't so boring.
01/01/00
No review available.
10/23/02
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