Boxing Helena 1993

Critics score:
19 / 100

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Janet Maslin, New York Times: 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. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It's just not a particularly good motion picture. Read more

Time Out: Grotesquely misconceived. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: 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. Read more

Joe Brown, Washington Post: Helena might have been salvageable as a so-bad-it's-good camp goof -- if only it weren't so boring. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: What Ms. Lynch has given us is a prettied-up snuff movie. Read more