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Helen Knode

Helen Knode's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Big Top Pee-wee (1988) 31% EDIT “Technically agile and graced with some perfectly good acting, Big Top Pee-wee doesn't exactly succeed as a comedy, because its theme is so weird and incongruous.” – L.A. Weekly Dec 13, 2025 Full Review Desert Hearts (1985) 77% EDIT “It's precisely as art that Desert Hearts fails most dismally. ” – L.A. Weekly Oct 12, 2025 Full Review Night of the Living Dead (1990) 57% EDIT “The remake can't possibly avoid appearing thin and a bit silly.” – L.A. Weekly Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Darkman (1990) 80% EDIT “The actors can't make us feel for Peyton, because they aren't given the tools to do it with. And if we don't care about Peyton, Darkman hardly makes sense.” – L.A. Weekly Aug 26, 2025 Full Review Home Alone (1990) 66% EDIT “Basically, Home Alone isn't funny because it says Kevin must love his family even though they make his life unlivable.” – L.A. Weekly Nov 29, 2023 Full Review Crossing Delancey (1988) 82% EDIT “The accurate, ironic observation of a milieu, however, doesn't lead us to any clarity or insight.” – L.A. Weekly May 15, 2023 Full Review Thelma & Louise (1991) 87% EDIT “On the subject of women and their destiny, Thelma & Louise is unequivocally pessimistic yet, to me, the film doesn't feel pessimistic for one second. Disguised as an upbeat, exciting, entertaining comic adventure, Thelma & Louise dares to be tragic.” – L.A. Weekly Mar 2, 2023 Full Review Dances With Wolves (1990) 87% EDIT “Dances With Wolves takes a politically adventurous stance without being preachy, and packs a tremendous emotional punch besides. ” – L.A. Weekly Nov 7, 2022 Full Review Rain Man (1988) 88% EDIT “At the point in Rain Man when Charlie would really change if the movie were committed to pursuing its premise to some logical conclusion, the film stops in Las Vegas so everybody can have fun, fun, fun, in expensive suits.” – L.A. Weekly Aug 4, 2022 Full Review The Witches of Eastwick (1987) 67% EDIT “Mad Max director George Miller films this New Testament moralizing with bounce but no particular style; his distinct cinematic flavor seems to depend on his subject matter. ” – L.A. Weekly Apr 22, 2022 Full Review Young Guns II (1990) 31% EDIT “Young Guns II is a bad movie, too, but bad in an uninteresting way.” – L.A. Weekly Nov 2, 2021 Full Review Come and See (1985) 90% EDIT “Come and See is grueling to watch. Klimov gets so involved in constructing a poetical/symbolic framework for Florya's suffering that the film strays into vague, plotless terrain where one dream looks like the next. ” – L.A. Weekly Mar 27, 2020 Full Review
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