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

• Karina Longworth talks movies with Woody, Penelope and Ellen

  published July 5, 2012

  1979. Woody Allen has just had the biggest hit of his career with Manhattan — a love letter to the titular city, a romantic... More >>

• A tour doc reveals Katy Perry's essential Katy Perry-ness

  published July 5, 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 play-acting in... More >>

• Despite its star talent, Magic Mike is pure Hollywood mythology

  published June 28, 2012

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

• The earnest Safety Not Guaranteed sits a notch above your basic indie nerd-mance

  published June 14, 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 >>

• Moonrise Kingdom could be Wes Anderson's most fully realized work

  published June 7, 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,... More >>

• In Tonight You're Mine, the party is real but the premise isn't

  published May 24, 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 >>

• Sacha Baron Cohen's Dictator fails to keep it real

  published May 17, 2012

  In The Dictator, his third collaboration with director Larry Charles, Sacha Baron Cohen plays Admiral General Aladeen, the young,... More >>

• The episodic Sound of My Voice feels unfinished

  published May 10, 2012

  Twenty-something Silver Lake couple Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius) talk their way into an unnamed cult that meets to... More >>

• Superhero supergroup flick The Avengers lacks character development

  published May 3, 2012

  At the start of Joss Whedon's long-awaited Marvel superhero supergroup flick, The Avengers, the Tesseract — a powerful,... More >>

• Footnote examines a father-son relationship in the world of Israeli academia

  published March 29, 2012

  In the first scene of Israel's Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee, Footnote, Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi) — a... More >>

• Being Flynn is as over-edited as your contemporary shoot-'em-up

  published March 22, 2012

  Written and directed by Paul Weitz, Being Flynn is an adaptation of Nick Flynn's 2004 memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck... More >>

• Rampart tracks the downward spiral of an LAPD cop

  published February 23, 2012

  Directed by Oren Moverman (The Messenger) from a script by Moverman and L.A. noir master James Ellroy, Rampart tracks the... More >>

• Declaration of War turns autobiography into thrilling expressionist art

  published February 23, 2012

  The gorgeously scruffy Juliette (director/co-writer Valérie Donzelli) and Roméo (co-writer Jérémie Elkaïm)... More >>

• Bad parenting, a school massacre and its aftermath in We Need to Talk About Kevin

  published February 16, 2012

  In Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin, Tilda... More >>

• Roman Polanski's Carnage is a predictable study of social (mis)behavior

  published January 12, 2012

  Roman Polanski's adaptation of Yasmina Reza's hit play, Carnage, stars Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Christoph Waltz and Kate... More >>

• Eleven movies to look forward to in 2012

  published January 5, 2012

  We know — you're excited about The Dark Knight Rises. And The Avengers. And The Hunger Games. So are we. We're also... More >>