Helen T. Verongos
Helen T. Verongos's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
New York Times
Movies reviews only
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The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star (2021) |
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
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| Posted Nov 18, 2021
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The Princess Switch: Switched Again (2020) |
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
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| Posted Nov 19, 2020
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Blow the Man Down (2019) |
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
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| Posted Mar 19, 2020
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A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby (2019) |
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
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| Posted Dec 06, 2019
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Wounds (2019) |
The movie more than fulfills its promise to unsettle and to incite shivers - and it doesn't quit. - New York Times
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| Posted Oct 18, 2019
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Untouchable (2019) |
A respectable and all-too-real introduction to a chilling chapter of a Hollywood horror story. - New York Times
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| Posted Sep 02, 2019
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Falling Inn Love (2019) |
"Falling Inn Love" keeps its promise warmly, but without the least pretense of sophistication. - New York Times
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| Posted Aug 29, 2019
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Boi (2019) |
The tantalizing clues, occasional laughs and lapses in reality are not enough to hold this film together. - New York Times
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| Posted Jul 26, 2019
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Echo in the Canyon (2018) |
The delight of "Echo in the Canyon" is in the delicious details its subjects impart. - New York Times
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| Posted May 30, 2019
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Shéhérezade (2018) |
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
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| Posted May 10, 2019
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Lady J (2018) |
Mouret manipulates our sympathies effortlessly as the story zigzags its way... to its ultimately surprising and quite satisfying resolution. - New York Times
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| Posted Mar 08, 2019
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Nigerian Prince (2018) |
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
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| Posted Oct 18, 2018
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Damascus Cover (2017) |
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
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| Posted Jul 26, 2018
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The Gardener (2016) |
Overall "The Gardener" is flat and lacking in soul, a word that comes up many times in the movie. - New York Times
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| Posted Mar 29, 2018
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Itzhak (2017) |
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
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| Posted Mar 08, 2018
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Drawing Home (2017) |
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
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| Posted Dec 21, 2017
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It's Not Yet Dark (2016) |
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
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| Posted Aug 03, 2017
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The Last Dalai Lama? (2016) |
A surplus of wisdom and benevolence radiates from "The Last Dalai Lama?" ... - New York Times
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| Posted Jul 27, 2017
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Sled Dogs (2016) |
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
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| Posted Jul 27, 2017
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Birthright: A War Story (2017) |
The case histories are stacked to support the film's point of view, but that doesn't make them less painful. - New York Times
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| Posted Jul 13, 2017
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Fatal Countdown: Reset (2017) |
Over all, this is an exciting film if not a completely cohesive one ... - New York Times
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| Posted Jun 30, 2017
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The Settlers (2016) |
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
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| Posted Mar 02, 2017
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The David Dance (2014) |
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
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| Posted Oct 13, 2016
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Harry & Snowman (2015) |
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
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| Posted Sep 29, 2016
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Chicken People (2016) |
A fun and at times astonishing film. - New York Times
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| Posted Sep 22, 2016
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1000 Rupee Note (2014) |
Its conclusion, harrowing, humorous and arguably unfortunate, only reinforces the idea that the unsophisticated country people are better off as they were. - New York Times
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| Posted Sep 22, 2016
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Cardboard Boxer (2016) |
Mr. Lee, straining, ends up delivering a sentimentalism that undermines Mr. Church's performance and this film's promise. - New York Times
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| Posted Sep 15, 2016
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The Wild Life (2016) |
"The Wild Life" is pretty to look at, with its skies and ocean, calm or stormy, and it has a driving soundtrack. But the story lacks that extra layer of complexity and meaning that parents can appreciate. - New York Times
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| Posted Sep 08, 2016
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Equal Means Equal (2014) |
Broader than it is deep, "Equal Means Equal" still drills down into enough specific issues to shock us afresh. - New York Times
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| Posted Sep 01, 2016
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Abortion: Stories Women Tell (2016) |
What Ms. Tragos succeeds in illustrating is that if you take away the signs and listen to the stories, there is little difference between women on opposite sides of the debate - at least in the region she covers. - New York Times
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| Posted Aug 11, 2016
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Bazodee (2016) |
Pretty and upbeat, if insubstantial. - New York Times
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| Posted Aug 04, 2016
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How He Fell in Love (2015) |
We bend over backward to find joy in this movie, but, like eager yogis striving to achieve an impossible asana, we just can't do it. - New York Times
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| Posted Jul 14, 2016
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The Kind Words (2015) |
The Israeli director Shemi Zarhin, who also wrote the screenplay, shuffles these modern problems into an enjoyably human mystery. - New York Times
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| Posted Jun 23, 2016
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King Jack (2015) |
For everyone who ever had a close call as an adolescent and kept it from the grown-ups, "King Jack" will hit you where you live. - New York Times
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| Posted Jun 09, 2016
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Gurukulam (2014) |
While the beauty of the setting is nourishing, without a narrative structure, the disjointed scenes raise questions. - New York Times
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| Posted Jun 02, 2016
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To Life (2014) |
There is a delicate beauty to this movie and its visual composition. - New York Times
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| Posted May 26, 2016
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Un minuto de bondad (1954) |
This ambitious documentary, by Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani, is largely pleasing to the eye, and it pays close attention to the eloquent activists at its core. - New York Times
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| Posted May 19, 2016
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Papa: Hemingway in Cuba (2015) |
Ms. Richardson comforts and coaxes and exasperatedly, bitingly demeans, but she and Mr. Sparks play past each other instead of engaging. - New York Times
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| Posted Apr 28, 2016
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New York, New York (2016) |
Its tightly shot scenes never reveal much context, and the rather cryptic subtitles can lead a viewer to mistaken conclusions until the identities and motivations of the characters click into focus. - New York Times
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| Posted Apr 14, 2016
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H. (2014) |
A clever film written and directed by Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia, "H." keeps the viewer watchful, waiting for it to splatter into a familiar horror plot or spin off into an alien abduction. - New York Times
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| Posted Mar 31, 2016
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The Preppie Connection (2015) |
This film fails even to evoke the '80s in costumes, soundtrack or other atmospherics. - New York Times
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| Posted Mar 18, 2016
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Fourth Man Out (2015) |
[A] tender, funny, but none too daring film ... - New York Times
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| Posted Feb 05, 2016
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Rabid Dogs (2015) |
If you can endure the messy slaughter, with a body count in double digits, the plot is not without its rewards. - New York Times
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| Posted Jan 21, 2016
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The Messenger (2015) |
Over all, the arguments are persuasive, the message from the birds powerful, and the film a rich and satisfying call to action that is presented with some novel ideas for how to restore the ecological balance. - New York Times
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| Posted Dec 03, 2015
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The Last Journey of Madam Phung (2014) |
Nguyen Thi Tham, who wrote, directed and shot the film, followed Madam Phung for a year as she took her brand of transgender glamour to remote provincial fairgrounds filled with villagers. - New York Times
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| Posted Nov 11, 2015
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A Faster Horse (2015) |
The tidbits we learn are wrapped in an unabashedly promotional tone that overestimates the global emotional attachment to this car's muscular mythos. - New York Times
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| Posted Oct 08, 2015
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Partisan (2015) |
Usually, partisans stand for something, but in this movie, which is stripped of a specific time frame and relevant geopolitical context, the term becomes hollow. - New York Times
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| Posted Oct 01, 2015
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Lost in Hong Kong (2015) |
Perhaps because it tries too hard to be too many things, the movie loses its punch. - New York Times
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| Posted Sep 24, 2015
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Some Kind of Hate (2015) |
"Some Kind of Hate" succeeds at being discomfiting, and Mr. Rubinstein's role is played well, but the film, directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer, simply does not cohere. - New York Times
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| Posted Sep 17, 2015
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The Beauty Inside (2015) |
The film, pleasing and inoffensive, often amuses as it wrestles with the nature of familiarity as well as the question of where beauty resides. - New York Times
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| Posted Sep 10, 2015
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