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Helen T. Verongos

Helen T. Verongos's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star (2021) 57% EDIT “Anyone who has seen one of these movies can just take over for the characters and guess their lines as easily as the three cousins can swap clothes and accents to impersonate one another.” – New York Times Nov 18, 2021 Full Review The Princess Switch: Switched Again (2020) 56% EDIT “Who wouldn't like to spend the winter holidays with good friends at a lavishly decorated palace in the kingdom of Montenaro, where glittering cascades of snow shower the beautiful people almost every time they step outside?” – New York Times Nov 19, 2020 Full Review Blow the Man Down (2019) 99% EDIT “The result is intriguing enough to make you wonder what these writer-directors might accomplish if they applied their vision to a more expansive canvas.” – New York Times Mar 19, 2020 Full Review A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby (2019) 36% EDIT “Although it offers a dungeon, a curse and a shocking theft, this flat, anodyne movie is unlikely to join the pantheon of holiday classics, so keep a rein on your expectations and accept that you'll need something more to salvage the evening.” – New York Times Dec 6, 2019 Full Review Wounds (2019) 47% EDIT “The movie more than fulfills its promise to unsettle and to incite shivers - and it doesn't quit.” – New York Times Oct 18, 2019 Full Review Untouchable (2019) 87% EDIT “A respectable and all-too-real introduction to a chilling chapter of a Hollywood horror story.” – New York Times Sep 2, 2019 Full Review Falling Inn Love (2019) 71% EDIT “"Falling Inn Love" keeps its promise warmly, but without the least pretense of sophistication.” – New York Times Aug 29, 2019 Full Review Boi (2019) EDIT “The tantalizing clues, occasional laughs and lapses in reality are not enough to hold this film together.” – New York Times Jul 26, 2019 Full Review Echo in the Canyon (2018) 89% EDIT “The delight of "Echo in the Canyon" is in the delicious details its subjects impart.” – New York Times May 30, 2019 Full Review Shéhérezade (2018) 100% EDIT “It's rare that a director's first feature film, accomplished with an ensemble of nonprofessional actors, proves to be as quietly powerful as Jean-Bernard Marlin's simple but lyrical "Shéhérazade."” – New York Times May 10, 2019 Full Review Lady J (2018) 85% EDIT “Mouret manipulates our sympathies effortlessly as the story zigzags its way... to its ultimately surprising and quite satisfying resolution.” – New York Times Mar 8, 2019 Full Review Nigerian Prince (2018) 100% EDIT “Is making do enough, or is there an honest way to prosper in a country with law, but no justice, where the corrupt police have jaunty berets, big guns and slippery loyalties?” – New York Times Oct 18, 2018 Full Review Damascus Cover (2017) 14% EDIT “The overarching idea of "Damascus Cover"... provides a worthy payoff: the idea that there are alliances that transcend religious wars and nationalistic sentiments for the sake of saving lives.” – New York Times Jul 26, 2018 Full Review The Gardener (2016) 75% EDIT “Overall "The Gardener" is flat and lacking in soul, a word that comes up many times in the movie.” – New York Times Mar 29, 2018 Full Review Itzhak (2017) 90% EDIT “We get a brief dip into his family's past and emigration from Israel, but the filmmaker never digs deeply enough to reveal any other substantial dimension of this man, or her theories about what shaped him.” – New York Times Mar 8, 2018 Full Review Drawing Home (2017) EDIT “The pacing is uneven, and the movie feels slow in spots and too long overall, even though it lacks detail that would have enriched it.” – New York Times Dec 21, 2017 Full Review It's Not Yet Dark (2016) 95% EDIT “Painful to watch and uncomfortably intimate at times, perhaps by design, "It's Not Yet Dark" could have been very dark indeed.” – New York Times Aug 3, 2017 Full Review The Last Dalai Lama? (2016) 91% EDIT “A surplus of wisdom and benevolence radiates from "The Last Dalai Lama?" ...” – New York Times Jul 27, 2017 Full Review Sled Dogs (2016) 100% EDIT “Ms. Levitt went on a sled ride once, and after a look behind the scenes, took a dog home with her. She will make you want to do the same.” – New York Times Jul 27, 2017 Full Review Birthright: A War Story (2017) 100% EDIT “The case histories are stacked to support the film's point of view, but that doesn't make them less painful.” – New York Times Jul 13, 2017 Full Review Fatal Countdown: Reset (2017) 50% EDIT “Over all, this is an exciting film if not a completely cohesive one ...” – New York Times Jun 30, 2017 Full Review The Settlers (2016) 95% EDIT “Mr. Dotan sorts out the forces and personalities that shaped the movement, going back to the 1967 Six-Day War that provided the territorial gains that enabled some Israelis, with a range of ideologies, to stake out newly occupied lands.” – New York Times Mar 2, 2017 Full Review The David Dance (2014) 33% EDIT “This film retains many of the qualities of theater. But without the benefit of theatrical devices that might clarify the order of events, its time warps undermine the plot.” – New York Times Oct 13, 2016 Full Review Harry & Snowman (2015) 94% EDIT “In the film, a student of Mr. deLeyer's recalls some of his advice: "Throw your heart over the top, and your horse will follow." "Harry & Snowman" makes you want to do the same.” – New York Times Sep 29, 2016 Full Review Chicken People (2016) 100% EDIT “A fun and at times astonishing film.” – New York Times Sep 22, 2016 Full Review
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