Laura Sinagra
Laura Sinagra's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Village Voice
Movies reviews only
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Face (2002) |
The movie never really finds a fresh groove. - Village Voice
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| Posted Mar 13, 2021
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The movie never really finds a fresh groove. - Village Voice
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| Posted Oct 20, 2018
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Ash Wednesday (2002) |
With more swagger than Saint Pat on Snake Day, Edward Burns struts around 1983 Hell's Kitchen in search of a Sopranos audition. - Village Voice
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| Posted Mar 24, 2011
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Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (2005) |
[A] rather grating hagiography. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jun 20, 2006
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Imagine Me & You (2005) |
... though this lesbian-themed entry in the Notting Hill and Four Weddings and a Funeral category neatly accomplishes the genre's other requirement, the ability to double as travelogue, its players are availed of precious little wit. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jan 25, 2006
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Rumor Has It ... (2005) |
Rumor had it this was gonna be a stinker, and it is. - Village Voice
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| Posted Dec 21, 2005
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The Boys of Baraka (2005) |
The Boys of Baraka's heart may be in the right place, but its portrait of poor Baltimore kids selected to attend boarding school in Kenya is rife with suspect perspectives. - Village Voice
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| Posted Nov 29, 2005
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Down to the Bone (2004) |
This film has an ear for the way moms talk to kids, a sensitivity to drug-sweetened intimacies, and an appreciation of the urgent nuance, not just the comedy, of recovery-speak. - Village Voice
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| Posted Nov 21, 2005
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Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005) |
Be warned, when a fedora-sporting Godfather starts wheezing out pearls about violence begetting violence, you may die tryin' to stop laughin'. - Village Voice
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| Posted Nov 09, 2005
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Derailed (2005) |
In terms of taut plot, Derailed doesn't exactly hold together either, but it's good at pretending it does. - Village Voice
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| Posted Nov 08, 2005
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Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family (2004) |
Beyond the buzz of iconoclasm, our explorers find a regular troubled marriage, only with three sides to every problem. - Village Voice
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| Posted Oct 18, 2005
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Nine Lives (2005) |
The short-story glimpses aim for Carver-esque pang, though the script could have used some Lorrie Moore bite. - Village Voice
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| Posted Oct 11, 2005
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Elizabethtown (2005) |
It's not a fiasco, but as the voiceover admits, anyone can fail. - Village Voice
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| Posted Oct 11, 2005
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In Her Shoes (2005) |
We crave more of the rapid slang and secret code that, by excluding us, creates intimacy. - Village Voice
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| Posted Oct 04, 2005
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Roll Bounce (2005) |
Unfortunately, despite the slamming soundtrack, their eventual rollerjam rivalry doesn't really get the blood up. - Village Voice
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| Posted Sep 20, 2005
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Separate Lies (2005) |
Doesn't quite set motivations at the required angles. - Village Voice
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| Posted Sep 13, 2005
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Junebug (2005) |
Morrison mostly succeeds in his attempt to show how secret knowledge can result in sudden violence as well as long-term, lived-in acceptance. - Village Voice
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| Posted Aug 02, 2005
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Must Love Dogs (2005) |
That's it. I'm divorcing Diane Lane. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jul 26, 2005
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Hustle & Flow (2005) |
There's something wrong with Hustle. A bad aftertaste, and not just the dry grit of Memphis dust, but something meaner. A feeling that Brewer's sensibility is way off. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jul 19, 2005
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On the Outs (2004) |
The central trio handles the narrative burdens well. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jul 12, 2005
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You Think You Really Know Me: The Gary Wilson Story (2005) |
Wolk's slack detective story follows Motel Records' search for Wilson, but the film's inquiry moves beyond him to highlight the righteous enthusiasm of champions at his new label and the still-puckish verve of Wilson's old friends. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jun 23, 2005
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Yes (2004) |
Potter's anachronistic rhyme schemes tumble forth with an out-damned-spot verve that rages against irrelevance. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jun 21, 2005
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Heights (2005) |
Cracking faults in these relationships occasion overwrought suspense: slow ascents of dark stairs, heavy silences, and surplus brow furrowing. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jun 14, 2005
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Mad Hot Ballroom (2005) |
One foosball game in an American-flag-bedecked Bensonhurst basement leaves us yearning for more intimate portraits. - Village Voice
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| Posted May 10, 2005
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Night of Henna (2004) |
Zee's twentysomethings seem to live outside the pop matrix that would give their temptations a more urgent, mall-culture sheen. - Village Voice
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| Posted Apr 19, 2005
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State Property 2 (2005) |
Attempts at real ruggish posturing -- like that de rigueur sideways-gatted, full-body-exposure firing stance -- are just plain laughable. - Village Voice
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| Posted Apr 12, 2005
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It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004) |
As the humor flags, It's All Gone Pete Tong starts to feel more like an exercise. - Village Voice
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| Posted Apr 12, 2005
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Winter Solstice (2004) |
What makes Winter Solstice, a nice little Jersey vignette about a widower and his two teenage sons, so striking is writer-director Josh Sternfeld's respect for the verbal shorthand of family interaction. - Village Voice
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| Posted Apr 05, 2005
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Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005) |
As Agent Sam Fuller (some script doctor is grinning somewhere), King is called upon to routinely assault co-workers. - Village Voice
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| Posted Mar 22, 2005
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D.E.B.S. (2004) |
'Did you go to Dalton?' If you did, and played Buffy beer shots at your safety school, this one's for you. - Village Voice
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| Posted Mar 22, 2005
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The Pacifier (2005) |
[An] unintentional fascist satire. - Village Voice
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| Posted Mar 09, 2005
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Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005) |
The film detours into an almost Miike-like torture sequence. - Village Voice
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| Posted Feb 22, 2005
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Freak Weather (1999) |
Kinetic and sympathetic gutter picaresque. - Village Voice
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| Posted Feb 02, 2005
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Travelers and Magicians (2003) |
As the journey progresses, the director conjures comedic, at times uniquely Buddhist tensions. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jan 26, 2005
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Army of One (2003) |
If you can handle the truth, Sarah Goodman's entropic doc is as exquisite a basic training in banal U.S. Army culture as you're likely to find. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jan 26, 2005
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Watermarks (2004) |
This account of the pre-Nazi glory and subsequent harrowing fate of the Austrian Jewish sports club Hakoah makes for a necessary corrective to Leni Riefenstahl's grudgingly admired Olympic myth-mongering. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jan 25, 2005
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Imaginary Heroes (2004) |
The interior lives of Heroes' adults seem like wild guesses. - Village Voice
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| Posted Dec 18, 2004
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The Sea Inside (2004) |
Director Alejandro Amenbar sidesteps legal polemics, but oddly doesn't aim for unflinching realism either, only hinting at the messy regimens that would underscore Ramn's claims of his condition's indignity. - Village Voice
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| Posted Dec 14, 2004
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Veer-Zaara (2004) |
Director Yash Chopra manages to fight several culture wars while milking the melodrama. - Village Voice
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| Posted Nov 16, 2004
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You See Me Laughin' (2003) |
It introduces us to the Fat Possum label's roster of self-taught players against a backdrop of poverty and otherworldly Delta remoteness. - Village Voice
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| Posted Nov 09, 2004
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5 Sides of a Coin (2003) |
This survey is a well-meaning Nickelodeon pep rally. - Village Voice
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| Posted Nov 09, 2004
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American Experience (2004) |
He may have 99 problems, but a glitch ain't one. - Village Voice
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| Posted Nov 02, 2004
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Home of the Brave (2004) |
This doc recounting the tragic story of Viola Liuzzo, the only white woman killed during the civil rights struggle, doubles as a narrative of the nascent women's movement. - Village Voice
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| Posted Oct 26, 2004
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Lightning in a Bottle (2004) |
Performances both lighthearted and smokin', backstage interviews, and archival footage projected on the hall's JumboTrons create an energetic gloss of blues history. - Village Voice
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| Posted Oct 19, 2004
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Raise Your Voice (2004) |
All we can do is marvel at how the mighty -- Northern Exposure hottie John Corbett (as a weirdly flirty music teacher) and Risky Business babe Rebecca De Mornay (as Duff's frisky aunt) -- have fallen. - Village Voice
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| Posted Oct 08, 2004
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DIG! (2004) |
[A] kinetic tale of the love-hate relationship between the Dandy Warhols' Courtney Taylor and the Brian Jonestown Massacre's Anton Newcombe. - Village Voice
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| Posted Sep 28, 2004
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The Last Shot (2004) |
Planned inanity never gets mad mad mad mad enough, and insider jabs like "I'm not a fake, I'm a director!" don't have the desired zaniness. - Village Voice
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| Posted Sep 28, 2004
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Particles of Truth (2003) |
Transcends its own considerable self-indulgence with sweet, believably tormented performances. - Village Voice
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| Posted Sep 14, 2004
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Tom Dowd & the Language of Music (2003) |
Moormann's film transcends A&E hagiography, and Dowd's spry egoism and science-hipster joie de vivre provide piquant icing. - Village Voice
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| Posted Aug 10, 2004
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Other Half (2008) |
It's too bad that Allouache's insurgent Islamists, into whose clutches Yasmine falls for a time, come off like Indiana Jones villains. - Village Voice
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| Posted Aug 03, 2004
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