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

• Dysfunctional Family Drama Done Right in Making Plans for Lena

  published August 18, 2010

  Christophe Honoré trades the whimsy of his quasi-musical "Paris Trilogy" for structurally ambitious psychodrama in Making Plans for... More >>

• Eat Pray Love Serves Near-Constant Catharsis, But Hardly Any Arc

  published August 11, 2010

  Lusciously shot by Oscar winner Robert Richardson (The Aviator, JFK), Eat Pray Love delivers a sensory overload as intense... More >>

• Body Language Trumps Bad Dialogue in Culture Clash Romance Cairo Time

  published August 4, 2010

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

• Quarter-Life Crisis in the Stunning New Year

  published July 27, 2010

  A slow-building stunner of a character study, The New Year stars Trieste Kelly Dunn as Sunny, a budding writer who returned to her... More >>

• Salt's Jolie: The First (Ambiguous) Action Heroine

  published July 20, 2010

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

• Frank V. Ross's Latest, Audrey the Trainwreck, Has No Character Named 'Audrey' and No Trainwreck

  published July 20, 2010

  Frank V. Ross makes no-budget, impeccably acted, dryly funny, and unpretentiously melancholic movies about the tiny gray area between happiness... More >>

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  Todd Solondz, Snowbird

  published July 20, 2010

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

• Oliver Stone and His Presidential Pals Team Up in South of the Border

  published June 22, 2010

  So one-sided that it nearly validates what the Right says about Hollywood's liberal crusaders, Oliver Stone's essay/lecture/travelogue South... More >>

• Dreaming of a World in Which 'Pussy' Means 'Big Light' in Dogtooth

  published June 22, 2010

  A 2009 Cannes winner, Dogtooth is hyperrealist sci-fi detailing an (anti)social experiment gone awry. The matriarch and patriarch of an... More >>

• Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky Gets It On

  published June 8, 2010

  Coco Chanel. Igor Stravinsky. Two iconoclasts whose contributions to their respective artistic fields left an indelible mark on the 20th... More >>

• Former Drunk Colin Farrell Has the Hots for a Mermaid Lady (in Ondine)

  published June 1, 2010

  A bad drunk dried out into a luckless loner fisherman, Syracuse (Colin Farrell) lives for visits with Annie (Alison Barry), his... More >>

• History According to Gone With the Pope

  published June 1, 2010

  Gone With the Pope is a '70s-era low-budget exploitation flick about a crew of bumbling Italian gangsters who come up with an ingenious... More >>

• '80s Kids: From MacGyver to MacGruber

  published May 18, 2010

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

• Letters to Juliet, Fantasy Indeed

  published May 11, 2010

  Blonde, pillow-topped, and spineless, Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) has a secure fact-checking job and is engaged to Victor (Gael García... More >>

• Ridley Scott's Robin Hood

  published May 11, 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 >>

• Tom Six's Torture-Porn Game-Changer The Human Centipede (First Sequence)

  published April 27, 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 >>

• Scott Caan's Vanity Project, Mercy

  published April 27, 2010

  Johnny (Scott Caan) is a Hollywood party boy/successful novelist who tosses out bon mots like, "You hitting that?" Then his bestseller gets... More >>

• Kick-Ass, Faster Than a Speeding Internet

  published April 13, 2010

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

• Tina Fey and Steve Carell's Dull Date Night

  published April 6, 2010

  'We are not these people! We are a boring couple from New Jersey!" complains Claire Foster (Tina Fey) to her husband, Phil (Steve Carell), in... More >>

• Michel Gondry's The Thorn in the Heart

  published March 30, 2010

  As a music-video director (Everlong, Fell in Love With a Girl), Michel Gondry excelled at making childlike dream worlds real; as... More >>

• 2010: The Year SXSW Film Broke

  published March 24, 2010

  The tagline for the recently concluded 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival was "Tomorrow Happens Here," slick marketing shorthand for the... More >>

• Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart in The Runaways

  published March 16, 2010

  There's an obvious stunt element to the casting of The Runaways: a punked-up, barely legal Kristen Stewart and a still underage, barely... More >>

• Zoe Kazan Seizes the Day in The Exploding Girl

  published March 9, 2010

  Those expecting action-movie pyrotechnics from Bradley Rust Gray's The Exploding Girl will be disappointed—the only loaded weapon... More >>

• Noah Baumbach On His New Film, Greenberg

  published March 9, 2010

  Noah Baumbach is 40 years old. He just learned how to drive. A native New Yorker, the writer/director started spending time in Los... More >>

• Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss

  published March 2, 2010

  Lecturing at the 2008 Telluride Film Festival after a screening of The Great Sacrifice, the hallucinatory romance directed by the... More >>