Boxing Helena Critic Reviews

Ultimately, Ms Lynch has nowhere to take her erotic parable except to a dead end, but she makes the unfolding of the story a spooky, engrossing process. [9 Sept 1993, p.C1]Read the full review

Even if the script delivered, the film would frankly be overwhelmed by the volume of noteriety that has attended it. [3 Sept 1993]Read the full review

Once it gets beyond a hard-to-swallow setup and into the meat of its story, Boxing Helena is surprisingly involving...The movie discloses its terms early, and expects the audience to buy into them, making no apologies for what it is or intends to be.Read the full review

Soft-core trash with a tent-show hook.Read the full review

The numerous sex scenes are good and steamy.Read the full review

Just awful. But uniquely awful -- awful in a way that might just attract a cult audience. [3 Sept 1993]Read the full review

A two-hour stink bomb, Boxing Helena is a pitifully pervy piece of work.Read the full review

What Lynch, who wrote the script at 19, sees as high drama is really high camp. And Fenn seems clueless on how to play her limbless character.Read the full review

It was probably worth every costly cent for Kim Basinger to get out of doing the dreadful Boxing Helena -- but you have to wonder whatever there was about it that persuaded her to do it in the first place. [3 Sept 1993]Read the full review