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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2011 Stories by Karina Longworth

• "Midnight in Paris": Woody Allen Does Time Travel

  published May 25, 2011

  A nebbishy screenwriter who longs to publish a novel, Gil (Owen Wilson) is tentatively working on a book set in a nostalgia shop — much... More >>

• "Bridesmaids": Women Get Their Own Apatow Comedy, for Better and for Worse

  published May 11, 2011

  Bridesmaids is a high-profile test case. Directed by Paul Feig (a sitcom journeyman most lovingly known as the creator of Freaks and... More >>

• Kelly Reichardt Explains "Meek's Cutoff," Her Latest Road Movie

  published May 4, 2011

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• Vampiric Landscape

  published April 27, 2011

  Post-apocalypse slow-burner Stake Land, produced by Larry Fessenden, is Jim Mickle and Nick Damici's follow-up to the... More >>

• Pushover Pushes Back

  published April 13, 2011

  In Super, when a local crime boss (Kevin Bacon) lures away his wife (Liv Tyler), lifelong pushover Frank (Rainn Wilson) -- under the... More >>

• "Win Win": Paul Giamatti Dully Wrestles with Middle Age

  published March 23, 2011

  Paul Giamatti continues contemporary cinema's longest pre-midlife crisis in Win Win as Mike, yet another schlubby fortysomething... More >>

• New Jane Eyre Is a Fresh Take on the Original Gothic Girl

  published March 16, 2011

  If Jane Eyre is not the greatest of the Great Books with a permanent position on required-reading lists, it may be the most frequently... More >>

• "The Adjustment Bureau": The Conspiracy Flick That Just Won't Shut Up

  published March 2, 2011

  In Bourne Ultimatum screenwriter George Nolfi's directorial debut (an extremely loose adaptation of Philip K. Dick's 1954 short story... More >>

• Oscars 2011: The Academy Goes for Safe Nominations

  published February 23, 2011

  Paramount, distributor of David O. Russell's The Fighter, celebrated the helmer's Best Director Oscar nomination by placing a "For Your... More >>

• Sundance dominated by cults and the uncertain future

  published February 2, 2011

  In Mike Cahill's Another Earth — a multiple prize-winner at this year's Sundance Film Festival and one of two titles co-written by... More >>

• "No Strings Attached": A surprisingly good romantic comedy

  published January 19, 2011

  Ivan Reitman, master of the high-concept, big-budget Hollywood comedy (Ghostbusters, Dave), would seem an unlikely candidate to direct... More >>

• "The Company Men": Pity for the emasculated executive

  published January 19, 2011

  Tracking the parallel trajectories of three employees laid off from cushy corporate jobs at the same Boston-based manufacturing conglomerate,... More >>

• Sundance Film Festival's prodigal children return

  published January 19, 2011

  The Sundance Film Festival, which began January 20 and ends January 30, self-identifies as a "discovery festival," meaning that it embraces its... More >>

• "Another Year": Mike Leigh's latest redeems no one

  published January 12, 2011

  Another Year, the 10th feature-length British soap written and directed by Mike Leigh, concerns a year in the life of Tom (Jim... More >>

• "Blue Valentine": Breaking up is hard to do

  published January 5, 2011

  When the MPAA handed Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine an NC-17 rating this fall, cynics suggested that the so-called kiss of death was... More >>