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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2011 Stories by Karina Longworth

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  COVER STORY

  Team Margaret: Karina Longworth on why you've never heard of her favorite movie of the year, plus nine more bests

  published December 22, 2011

  Margaret, written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count on Me), starring Anna Paquin with key supporting performances... More >>

• Karina Longworth Picks 10 for '12

  published December 22, 2011

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

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  Scorsese milks the 3D trend for his timeless cause in Hugo

  published December 1, 2011

  Martin Scorsese's first foray into big-budget family filmmaking — as well as his inaugural effort in 3-D — Hugo is a... More >>

• My Week With Marilyn takes the sex out of sex symbol

  published November 24, 2011

  We get the escapism we deserve, I guess: Just as 1930s Hollywood distracted Depression-era audiences with glitzy Fred and Ginger musicals,... More >>

• A mad-scientist tale without the moral compass in The Skin I Live In

  published November 24, 2011

  The morality of the mad-scientist tale has remained more or less fixed since the beginning of sound cinema: From Dr. Frankenstein's... More >>

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  Footloose 2011 has the moves to bridge generations

  published October 13, 2011

  In hindsight, the 1984 hit Footloose — directed by Herbert Ross — can be seen as the link between the old Hollywood model of... More >>

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  Intrigue drowns out argument in political thriller The Ides of March

  published October 6, 2011

  A procedural on the political manipulation of medium and message, George Clooney's fourth directorial effort is bookended with scenes of... More >>

• Steven Soderbergh turns the star-studded Hollywood disaster flick on its head

  published September 8, 2011

  Currently the fifth-to-last film on Steven Soderbergh's ever-expanding pre-retirement slate, Contagion opens on day two of a global... More >>

• Long-haired dreamer has predictably profound effect on his siblings in Our Idiot Brother

  published August 25, 2011

  In Jesse Peretz's Our Idiot Brother, Paul Rudd plays Ned, a kind of Upstate New York version of "The Dude" Lebowski — a man out of... More >>

• July 15 is a very important date for the lovers of One Day

  published August 18, 2011

  Directed by Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig from a screenplay by David Nicholls, based on his novel, One Day stars Anne Hathaway as Emma,... More >>

• Earth Angel

  published August 11, 2011

  There might be nothing as Old Hollywood as the narrative about a pretty girl summoning up a dose of pluck to triumph over adversity. And yet... More >>

• Mean Girls vs. the Maids

  published August 11, 2011

  More than just the Hollywood "It" girl of the moment, Emma Stone is a real actress, and in The Help, she gets an ostentatious,... More >>

• Guys urinate, swap bodies, discover their true selves in The Change-Up

  published August 4, 2011

  A uniquely Freudian entry in the body-switching comedy canon, The Change-Up stars Jason Bateman as standard-issue anal-retentive... More >>

• Not Crazy Enough: I Love You Phillip Morris directors fall short with the less-than-groundbreaking Crazy, Stupid, Love

  published July 28, 2011

  In the first scene of Crazy, Stupid, Love, Emily (Julianne Moore) tells Cal (Steve Carell), her high school sweetheart and husband of... More >>

• Captain America ignores its roots for easy money

  published July 21, 2011

  Created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for Marvel Comics in 1941, Captain America was among the first American comic books intended as an... More >>

• It's hard out there for an employed, middle-class, white-collar male in Horrible Bosses

  published July 7, 2011

  There's a scene in Horrible Bosses in which Jennifer Aniston, playing a dentist who habitually sexually harasses her weakling male... More >>

• Bad Teacher and the downside of equal rights in Hollywood

  published June 23, 2011

  From Tad Friend's New Yorker profile of Anna Faris (which Jezebel.com reblogged under the headline... More >>

• Not exactly lighting up the screen, Green Lantern gives us little reason to bother

  published June 16, 2011

  It's ten minutes before a human character appears onscreen in Green Lantern, a personality-free franchise-launcher that builds toward a... More >>

• Investigating the problem of time in Midnight in Paris

  published June 9, 2011

  A nebbishy screenwriter who longs to publish a novel, Gil (Owen Wilson) is tentatively working on a book set in a nostalgia shop — much... More >>

• A comedy written by and starring women, Bridesmaids still screwed

  published May 12, 2011

  Bridesmaids is a high-profile test case. Directed by Paul Feig (a sitcom journeyman most lovingly known as the creator of Freaks and... More >>

• A new adaptation of Jane Eyre stresses the pursuit of independence

  published March 24, 2011

  If Jane Eyre is not the greatest of the Great Books with a permanent position on required-reading lists, it may be the most frequently... More >>

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  A too-talky Adjustment Bureau still has its pleasures

  published March 3, 2011

  In Bourne Ultimatum screenwriter George Nolfi's directorial debut (a loose adaptation of Philip K. Dick's short story "Adjustment... More >>

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  Choosing between the smug couple or their loser friends in Another Year

  published February 3, 2011

  Another Year, the tenth feature-length British soap written and directed by Mike Leigh, concerns a year in the life of Tom (Jim... More >>

• Natalie Portman follows up with, surprise, an awfully good No Strings Attached

  published January 20, 2011

  Ivan Reitman, master of the high-concept, big-budget Hollywood comedy (Ghostbusters, Dave), would seem an unlikely candidate to... More >>

• Grieving tastefully in Rabbit Hole

  published January 13, 2011

  Based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire, John Cameron Mitchell's Rabbit Hole plops us down in the lives... More >>