Email Author Karina Longworth
Awards
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2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club
Film reviews
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2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published February 5, 2010
"Sundance's Rebel Yell"
2012 Stories by Karina Longworth
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COVER STORY
Tarantino, Alone: Hollywood insider, Quentin Tarantino tells of his struggle to make Django Unchained
published December 27, 2012
Quentin Tarantino has been Googling himself, and it's starting to become a problem. The filmmaker is famously an analog evangelist: He writes... More >>
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Making a Killing: Killing Them Softly argues crime is just business
published November 29, 2012
An adaptation of George V. Higgins' 1974 novel Cogan's Trade, Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly anatomizes a self-policing... More >>
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Hitchcock: Shouldn't the making of Psycho be more interesting?
published November 29, 2012
Early in Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock (played by Sir Anthony Hopkins with a sack of fat connecting chin to neck) walks the red carpet at... More >>
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Looking for David O. Russell in Silver Linings Playbook
published November 22, 2012
Silver Linings Playbook, which stars Bradley Cooper as a manic-depressive man-child attempting to get his life back together after a... More >>
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Skyfall lays bare the unknowable spy
published November 8, 2012
If Hollywood's rut du jour is the origin story as bid for franchise immortality, you can't say that Skyfall — the 23rd "official"... More >>
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Fun Size, the teen comedy that's not bad for you
published October 25, 2012
Gossip Girl and The O.C., the two teen TV shows created in the past decade by 36-year-old Josh Schwartz, are sly bait and... More >>
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Hearts and Minds: With Argo, Ben Affleck asks us to love Hollywood again
published October 11, 2012
Perhaps more than any other male American star of his generation, Ben Affleck understands the narrative advantage of having Hollywood on your... More >>
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You aren't expecting what Paul Thomas Anderson is giving in The Master
published September 20, 2012
There's something startlingly noncommittal about many of the initial reviews of The Master that leaked out following the impromptu... More >>
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Sleepwalk With Me can't quite rise to the level of radio
published September 14, 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 >>
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Cosmopolis limos through the mind of a master of the universe
published September 6, 2012
Boyishly lean, with a brooding angularity that suggests both high maintenance and nefarious vacancy, Robert Pattinson has managed to fill the... More >>
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Compliance's Craig Zobel on documenting sexual degradation — with humanity
published August 30, 2012
Like antidepressants, artificial sugars, Botox and other miracle inventions of the past century, corporate culture became an omnipresent fact... More >>
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Celeste and Jesse Forever is too scattered to transcend its genre
published August 30, 2012
In Celeste and Jesse Forever, the titular, newly separated female protagonist's un-flamboyant queer co-worker (Elijah Wood) tells her... More >>
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Even China can't shut up artist/gadfly Ai Weiwei
published August 16, 2012
Chinese artist, activist and antagonist Ai Weiwei became a worldwide cause celebre last April when he was arrested by authorities at the... More >>
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High Jinks and F-bombs in The Campaign
published August 9, 2012
The Campaign begins with an onscreen quote attributed to Ross Perot: "War has rules. Mud-wrestling has rules. Politics has no rules."... More >>
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New LCD Soundsystem Concert Doc Hits the Tivoli Tomorrow
published July 19, 2012
When we started the band, suddenly we were, like, New York famous. We could get into anyplace, but you know — I was never recognized on a... More >>
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Oliver Stone's drug-trade drama settles for sensation in Savages
published July 5, 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 >>
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A Part of Me 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 playacting in... More >>
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Magic Mike reveals its cast but is no revelation
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 — which... More >>
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Roman Holiday: Woody Allen talks about his new film and old themes (art, death, love)
published June 28, 2012
Woody Allen has just had the biggest hit of his career with Manhattan — a love letter to the titular city, a romantic celebration... More >>
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In Safety Not Guaranteed and Lola Versus, love doesn't mean an insult to the audience's intelligence
published June 21, 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 >>
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Here's Tom Cruise as a hair-metal god and hair metal as un-awful in Rock of Ages
published June 14, 2012
Rock of Ages, a new star-clogged pop-musical diversion, is a cinematic event. It's not every day, after all, that you get to see two... More >>
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Young love, Wes Anderson–style in Moonrise Kingdom
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 >>
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Brit Marling preaches end times in Sound of My Voice
published May 31, 2012
Twentysomething Silver Lake couple Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius) talk their way into an unnamed cult that meets in the... More >>
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Films, stars and Cannes itself combat easy categorization
published May 31, 2012
The Cannes Film Festival (which ended its two-week run on Saturday) is nothing if not a study in contradictions. Studio product and tabloid... More >>
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Becoming a real person in Goodbye First Love
published May 24, 2012
Writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve's third feature, Goodbye First Love begins in 1999, when protagonist Camille (Lola... More >>
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