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

• The ten best movies of 2010

  published December 30, 2010

  Sold — and bought — as the year's most "intelligent" blockbuster while actually baldly insulting its audience's intelligence,... More >>

• Stripped: Aguilera's voice can't save Burlesque

  published November 25, 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 >>

• Rachel McAdams gives a real star turn in Morning Glory

  published November 11, 2010

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

• A profane mash-up of the sacred and the brain-dead, Enter the Void is addictive

  published October 21, 2010

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

• How Cairo gave her groove back: Cairo Time is a middle-age libido fantasy

  published August 26, 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 >>

• The Switch is a lovable-loser romantic fantasy

  published August 19, 2010

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

• After Cruise drops out, Jolie steps up in exhilarating Salt

  published July 22, 2010

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

• From MacGyver to MacGruber, filmmakers pay homage to the pop culture of their youth

  published May 20, 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 rails against the no-good tax-and-spend Nottingham elite

  published May 13, 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... More >>

• Kick-Ass is not as kick-ass as it could be

  published April 15, 2010

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

• On the road to ruin or fame, the story of The Runaways

  published April 8, 2010

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

• Date Night

  published April 8, 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), about... More >>

• October Country shows an American family, stuck from one Halloween to the next

  published March 11, 2010

  Set in the white, lower-class, upstate New York dead end of Mohawk Valley, Donal Mosher and Michael Palmieri's October Country follows... More >>

• Flick Pick

  published March 11, 2010

  Set in the white, lower-class, upstate New York dead end of Mohawk Valley, Donal Mosher and Michael Palmieri's October Country... More >>

• Cop Out is a cliche-filled movie-trivia comedy -- and it works

  published February 25, 2010

  Cop Out establishes its movie lineage right away, with a slow-motion toe-to-head tilt up, set to the Beastie Boys' "No Sleep 'Til... More >>

• Valentine's Day

  published February 11, 2010

  In Pretty Woman, director Garry Marshall's personal cinematic high score, the opening credits close (and the closing credits open) with... More >>