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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2012 Stories by Karina Longworth

• "Sleepwalk with Me": Can't Quite Rise to the Level of Radio

  published August 29, 2012

  It's pretty Pollyannaish to complain when companies that are in the business of making money on movies make certain movies solely to make... More >>

• "Cosmopolis": Limoing Through the Mind of a Master of the Universe

  published August 22, 2012

  Boyishly lean, with a brooding angularity that suggests both high maintenance and nefarious vacancy, Robert Pattinson has managed to fill the... More >>

• Interview: Craig Zobel on Authority and Degradation in "Compliance"

  published August 22, 2012

  Like antidepressants, artificial sugars, Botox, and other miracle inventions of the past century, corporate culture became an omnipresent fact... More >>

• Julie Delpy: She's Taking on Everything That's Wrong with Movies

  published August 15, 2012

  "My son is sick right now, covered in zits. It's not contagious — I mean, it's contagious, but don't worry: Grown-ups don't catch it.... More >>

• "Celeste and Jesse Forever": Ladies Sure Are Silly, Eh, Fellas?

  published August 8, 2012

  In Celeste and Jesse Forever, the titular, newly-separated female protagonist's un-flamboyant queer co-worker (Elijah Wood) tells her... More >>

• "The Campaign": A Political Goof Full of Hijinks and F-Bombs

  published August 8, 2012

  The Campaign begins with an on-screen quote attributed to Ross Perot: "War has rules. Mud-wrestling has rules. Politics has no rules."... More >>

• "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry": Even China Can't Shut Him Up

  published July 25, 2012

  Chinese artist, activist, and antagonist Ai Weiwei became a worldwide cause célèbre last April when he was arrested by... More >>

• "The Queen of Versailles": Time-Share Royalty's Time Is Up

  published July 25, 2012

  "I don't want to give you lessons in self-denial and social responsibility," an art dealer tells her billionaire boy client in Don DeLillo's... More >>

• "Shit Year": Ellen Barkin Loses It, Conceptually

  published July 25, 2012

  The second feature from Cam Archer stars Ellen Barkin as Colleen, a fiftyish fading star who, after making "35 films in 30 years," leaves... More >>

• "Trishna": Michael Winterbottom Takes Hardy's "Tess" to Mumbai

  published July 18, 2012

  Michael Winterbottom is multitasking — like that's a surprise. He has made a dozen films in the past decade, as varied as the Steve... More >>

• This Has Happened: James Murphy on the New LCD Soundsystem Doc

  published July 18, 2012

  "When we started the band, suddenly we were, like, New York famous. We could get into any place, but you know — I was never recognized on... More >>

• "Savages": Drug-Trade Drama Settles for Sensation

  published July 4, 2012

  "Welcome to the recession, boys," says John Travolta's DEA-double-agent profiteer in Oliver Stone's Savages, based on Don Winslow's... More >>

• "Katy Perry: Part of Me": Meet the Real Gurl

  published July 4, 2012

  From bubblegum-bi-curious novelty "I Kissed a Girl" on, Katy Perry has built a career on glorious brain-dead-with-a-wink odes to playacting in... More >>

• "Magic Mike": A Star Is Bared

  published June 27, 2012

  When Channing Tatum stood up and revealed his bare ass to the camera a minute or two into Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike — which... More >>

• "Goodbye First Love": Sweetly Chronicles Coming of Age

  published June 20, 2012

  Writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve's third feature, Goodbye First Love begins in 1999, when protagonist Camille (Lola... More >>

• "Lola Versus": Stoner Comedy Dares to Be Smart

  published June 13, 2012

  Smart but spacey, naturally luminous and yet legitimately awkward, Greta Gerwig is perfectly cast in director Daryl Wein's romantic tailspin... More >>

• "Safety Not Guaranteed": Love Doesn't Make Us All Stupid

  published June 13, 2012

  With her high cheekbones, feline brown eyes, and heart-shaped mouth, actress Aubrey Plaza is bombshell hot. But in an unusual twist for a... More >>

• "Tonight You're Mine": Love Among the Urban Outfitted

  published June 13, 2012

  This entry in the "hot young opposites attract over the course of one long night" genre takes place at Scotland's muddy summer counterpart to... More >>

• "Moonrise Kingdom": Young Love, Wes Anderson-Style

  published May 30, 2012

  It's 1965, the rainy end of summer on the rocky coast of a fictional New England isle. Twelve-year-old Sam (Jared Gilman), a scrawny outcast,... More >>

• "Keyhole": A Dream-World of Ideas, Bolted Shut

  published May 23, 2012

  The latest phantasmagoria of cinematic quotation from Canadian director Guy Maddin, Keyhole is an extremely loose adaptation of the... More >>

• "Polisse": A Lively "Law and Order: SVU" in Paris

  published May 23, 2012

  An episodic ensemble piece based on cases handled by Paris's Child Protection Unit, Polisse is a mutant beast: Imagine an entire season... More >>

• The Good and Bad of Kids and the Law

  published May 23, 2012

  An episodic ensemble piece based on cases handled by Paris's Child Protection Unit, Polisse is a mutant beast: Imagine an entire... More >>

• "The Dictator": More Culture Clash Than Comedy Revolution

  published May 16, 2012

  In The Dictator, Admiral General Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen), dictator of fictional North African nation Wadiya, travels to New York to... More >>

• "Here": New Lovers Take an International Road Trip

  published May 9, 2012

  Will (Ben Foster) — a lone-wolf American cartographer on contract to collect data on the ground to match to satellite maps in Armenia's... More >>

• "The Avengers": Superheroes Need Rescue From Predictability

  published May 2, 2012

  At the start of the Marvel superhero supergroup flick, the Tesseract — a powerful glowing cube that fell to the ocean floor after Captain... More >>