Email Author Karina Longworth

Awards

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  Film reviews

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published February 5, 2010

  "Sundance's Rebel Yell"

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2010 Stories by Karina Longworth

• "Rabbit Hole": A couple grieves tastefully

  published December 22, 2010

  Based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire, More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Film director Sofia Coppola's journey to "Somewhere"

  published December 22, 2010

  Sofia Coppola had her 21st birthday party at the Chateau Marmont — a fact she had forgotten until Phil Pavel, the manager of the hotel,... More >>

• Karina Longworth's Top 10 Films of 2010

  published December 22, 2010

  Every four years, the American people act en masse to send a message to the nation's power brokers, and every four years, this vote is... More >>

• "Burlesque": Cher and Xtina rehash yesterday's musicals

  published November 24, 2010

  "She doesn't sing that way because she's had it easy." This is how Tess (Cher), the long-suffering owner of the nightclub at the center of... More >>

• "Morning Glory": Rachel McAdams and Harrison Ford light up a morning TV show

  published November 10, 2010

  In the climax of Morning Glory, Rachel McAdams is dressed in a flesh-colored, diaphanous cocktail dress, its halter top and tight bodice... More >>

• "Due Date": Zach Galifianakis steals a road movie from Robert Downey Jr.

  published November 3, 2010

  In Due Date, a skinny, scowly, and dryly self-referential Robert Downey Jr. meets a chubby, beardy, quasi-autistic Zach Galifianakis... More >>

• "Jackass 3D": The prank franchise exploits the trendy format

  published October 20, 2010

  The ultra-lo-fi, skate-culture-spawned, extreme-stunt brand that turned its freak show of featured players — including a midget (Jason... More >>

• "Stone": Edward Norton talks about his new criminal buddy pic with Robert De Niro

  published October 13, 2010

  Movie stars make a living peddling distinct, definable personalities. Edward Norton, a movie star who might have enjoyed the comparative... More >>

• "Enter the Void": Dumb but trippy

  published October 6, 2010

  A very, very loose and highly symbolic adaptation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void unfolds in... More >>

• Toronto Film Festival 2010 roundup

  published September 22, 2010

  It was the best of TIFFs, it was the worst of TIFFs. While the trade pubs breathlessly trumpeted the flurry of deals that took place at the... More >>

• "Catfish": Truth is stranger than fiction

  published September 15, 2010

  What is Catfish? That question is an implicit part of the film's marketing campaign, which, with the tagline, "Don't let anyone tell you... More >>

• "I'm Still Here": Joaquin Phoenix implodes — we think

  published September 8, 2010

  I'm Still Here — "that Joaquin Phoenix movie" — capitalizes on an anxiety that is very of-the-moment, uniting pop cultural... More >>

• "Machete": When it's not funny, it's downright dull

  published September 1, 2010

  In 1993, inspired by his second cousin Danny Trejo's work in Desperado, Robert Rodriguez wrote a screenplay around the character of... More >>

• Nile Be There

  published September 1, 2010

  New York editor Juliette (Patricia Clarkson) travels alone to Cairo to meet her husband, who works for the United Nations in Gaza. When hubby gets... More >>

• "The Switch": Attractive female seeks attractive sperm donor

  published August 18, 2010

  The Switch is a loose adaptation of a Jeffrey Eugenides story, "Baster," published in The New Yorker in 1996 and deemed fit for... More >>

• "Lourdes": Miracles can happen?

  published August 11, 2010

  With its palette of hot poppy red and cool sky blue; its deft mining of the subliminal comic potential of grand, historically heavy locations;... More >>

• Miracle Worker

  published August 11, 2010

  In the film Lourdes, blonde, wide-eyed Christine (Sylvie Testud, giving a great Mona Lisa smile) stands out amid the crowd of ill... More >>

• Todd Solondz interview: On "Life During Wartime"

  published August 4, 2010

  Relief from a summer movie season marked by blockbuster and franchise fatigue may come in the form of an extremely unlikely sequel. Life... More >>

• "Salt": Angelina Jolie is the first ambiguous action heroine

  published July 21, 2010

  Salt, famously the Spy Flick Rewritten for Angelina Jolie after Tom Cruise Dropped Out, has been publicized as the cinematic equivalent... More >>

• Kick-Ass

  published June 30, 2010

  Tired of being mugged by high school thugs in a Manhattan that's notably scummier than the real thing, the teen hero of Kick-Ass wonders,... More >>

• Movies pay homage to the '80s: From "Hot Tub Time Machine" to "MacGruber"

  published May 19, 2010

  MacGruber (Will Forte), a highly decorated soldier of fortune known for "making life-saving inventions out of household materials," faked his... More >>

• "Robin Hood": An old-fashioned adventure epic

  published May 12, 2010

  Is it an accident that Ridley Scott's Robin Hood plays like a rousing love letter to the Tea Party movement? It's certainly something of... More >>

• The Human Centipede

  published May 5, 2010

  In Tom Six's torture-porn game-changer The Human Centipede, an evil German doctor kidnaps a Japanese man and two vapid American girl... More >>

• "October Country": Days of the living dead

  published May 5, 2010

  The white, lower-class, upstate New York dead-end of Mohawk Valley is surely not the milieu metal frontman Al Jourgensen had in mind when he... More >>

• "Kick-Ass": Superheroes in the YouTube age

  published April 14, 2010

  Kick-Ass, the Matthew Vaughn–directed adaptation of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s graphic novel, sets itself up as an... More >>