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Helen Bower

Helen Bower's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Ace in the Hole (1951) 88% EDIT “Over the entire movie is the magical perfection of Wilder's way with a story... Ace in the Hole is bad news that should sell. ” – Detroit Free Press Feb 3, 2026 Full Review A Place in the Sun (1951) 90% EDIT “"A Place in the Sun" will claim its place in the sun of Hollywood achievement as an adult picture expertly treated in every department. ” – Detroit Free Press Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Out of the Past (1947) 87% EDIT “The story is hard to follow and not much worth the effort.” – Detroit Free Press Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Alice in Wonderland (1951) 83% EDIT “All this makes for comedy and an agreeable lightness to match such delicacy and charm as that of the picture's floral sequence and the underwater ballet of the Little Oysters. ” – Detroit Free Press Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Rebel Without a Cause (1955) 91% EDIT “In spite of all its diffusion, [the film] can be commended for the acting of the late James Dean...with magnified sorrow the public may see what personality, charm and force were lost to the future in young Dean's fatal car crash.” – Detroit Free Press Oct 23, 2025 Full Review Born Yesterday (1950) 95% EDIT “Garson Kanin's stage play has had to be expanded to fill the requirements with a feature movie. This has cost something in tightness and sock. But something has been acquired in visible impact of American greatness. ” – Detroit Free Press Oct 13, 2025 Full Review Napoleon (1927) 87% EDIT “A remarkable picture in many ways, but not one calculated to catch American attention, save as a novelty.” – Detroit Free Press May 14, 2024 Full Review White Heat (1949) 94% EDIT “White Heat scorches with action in which Cagney and Miss Wycherly make searing impressions.” – Detroit Free Press Apr 22, 2024 Full Review The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) 100% EDIT “What goes on in the mind of a meek, low-salaried little man in a position of trust is put into the movie's perfectly-executed action. ” – Detroit Free Press Apr 17, 2024 Full Review Jailhouse Rock (1957) 67% EDIT “All in all, Presley fans should love Jailhouse Rock. ” – Detroit Free Press Apr 12, 2024 Full Review The Big Heat (1953) 95% EDIT “It has the kind of socko that will lies behind a good many small items in the newspapers and behind the big stories that make the evil deeds of the Medicis amateurish and simple in comparison.” – Detroit Free Press Apr 11, 2024 Full Review Sabrina (1954) 89% EDIT “Sabrina is just a little old black and white, standard screen ratio movie -- just touched with magic, is all. ” – Detroit Free Press Mar 27, 2024 Full Review The Searchers (1956) 87% EDIT “Ford has achieved an extraordinary effect. There is the sense of time passing, yet the picture never drags. There is continued action, yet the picture conveys in almost leisurely fashion the life of isolated families in the remote early West.” – Detroit Free Press Mar 25, 2024 Full Review The Lone Ranger (1956) 90% EDIT “This new movie should give new life to his legend. Like their fathers before them, in she small boys may be running around with masked faces, having forgotten Hopalong Cassidy and Davy Crockett.” – Detroit Free Press Nov 9, 2023 Full Review Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) 88% EDIT “Together the gals [Monroe and Russel] are quite a team, and the movie quite a picture. ” – Detroit Free Press Mar 8, 2023 Full Review Sayonara (1957) 82% EDIT “One of the year's superior movie dramas.” – Detroit Free Press Mar 2, 2023 Full Review Diabolique (1955) 95% EDIT “Diabolique is a devilishly good movie, real cool for hot weather. ” – Detroit Free Press Jan 31, 2023 Full Review Gentleman's Agreement (1947) 82% EDIT “Tangy and crisp as tossed salad straight from the refrigerator, [Celeste Holm]'s the smart package of chlorophyll that rids the air of unpleasant tension and makes it one-world fresh.” – Detroit Free Press Nov 16, 2022 Full Review Stalag 17 (1953) 91% EDIT “As much as any movie I've ever seen, Stalag 17 illustrates what can and should be done in translating a stage hit to the screen.” – Detroit Free Press Nov 5, 2022 Full Review House on Haunted Hill (1959) 80% EDIT “It moves but jerkily, and with a lot of ridiculous and unexplained "horror" effects. ” – Detroit Free Press Sep 20, 2022 Full Review La Strada (1954) 98% EDIT “La Strada, which means "The Road," will have as much meaning 100 years from now as it does today when it serves to rank its author-director Federico Fellini with Rossellini and De Sica as creative talents of the Italian cinema. ” – Detroit Free Press Sep 14, 2022 Full Review Gigi (1958) 90% EDIT “Gigi is escape set to music -- a lovely voyage backward in time to a plush Parisian world of gentlemen in frock coats, ladies in trailing gowns and horse-drawn carriages in the Bois de Boulogne.” – Detroit Free Press Mar 25, 2022 Full Review From Here to Eternity (1953) 88% EDIT “Aristocratically beautiful as ever, Miss Kerr employs a subtlety I've never before noted In her performances.” – Detroit Free Press Mar 16, 2022 Full Review Porgy and Bess (1959) 71% EDIT “This Porgy... has done its best to meet the challenge of turning an operetta of this nature into popular entertainment. If it sometimes seems slowed or stagey, the form of the musical melodrama rather than the film itself may have made this unavoidable.” – Detroit Free Press Jan 20, 2022 Full Review Nightmare Alley (1947) 87% EDIT “All together the film has a great deal of accumulative impact. It is a thoroughly unpleasant, but salutary picture. It should pull both potential dupes and the potentially ruthless up good and short.” – Detroit Free Press Dec 7, 2021 Full Review
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