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A disturbing concept marred by graceless execution, Boxing Helena is a psychosexual drama that proves more tedious than provocative.
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Both the beauty and her beastly pursuer remain too blankly generic for the implications of the movie's main metaphor to come through vividly. May 30, 2019 | Full Review…
Both the beauty and her beastly pursuer remain too blankly generic for the implications of the movie's main metaphor to come through vividly.
Jay Boyar
'Boxing Helena'' is a bad film - with terrible acting, cliched dialogue, a silly script, pedestrian camera work and inferior direction. June 12, 2018 | Full Review…
'Boxing Helena'' is a bad film - with terrible acting, cliched dialogue, a silly script, pedestrian camera work and inferior direction.
Dolores Barclay
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Owen Gleiberman
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. February 8, 2008 | Full Review…
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.
Variety Staff
Grotesquely misconceived. June 24, 2006 | Full Review…
Grotesquely misconceived.
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. May 20, 2003 | Rating: 3/5
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.
Janet Maslin
Instead of the grotesque sexual humiliation of Kim Basinger we were all hoping for, we get schoolgirl surrealism. July 25, 2018 | Full Review…
Instead of the grotesque sexual humiliation of Kim Basinger we were all hoping for, we get schoolgirl surrealism.
Vanessa Letts
Take one peak into the shoddy, tasteless Boxing Helena, and you'll realize why Madonna and Kim Basinger bailed out of the title role. April 18, 2018 | Full Review…
Take one peak into the shoddy, tasteless Boxing Helena, and you'll realize why Madonna and Kim Basinger bailed out of the title role.
Owen McNally
Quote not available. April 5, 2008 | Rating: 1/5
Cole Smithey
[An] ambitious but unsuccessful curiosity. February 8, 2008 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
[An] ambitious but unsuccessful curiosity.
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. October 30, 2007 | Full Review…
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.
Rumsey Taylor
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. May 2, 2006 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
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.
Emanuel Levy
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