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

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  More culture-clash yuks than comedy revolution in Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator

  published May 17, 2012

  In his third collaboration with director Larry Charles, Sacha Baron Cohen plays Admiral General Aladeen, the young, dumb dictator of fictional... More >>

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  With his first movie in fourteen years, Whit Stillman returns, triumphant and worried

  published May 3, 2012

  Whit Stillman made a name for himself making semiautobiographical, deadpan, highly literate comedies about the night lives of idle heirs (his... More >>

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  Superheroes bump superegos in Joss Whedon's all-star Avengers. Things go boom.

  published May 3, 2012

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

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  A lost boy and a sliver of hope in the Dardenne brothers' fairy tale The Kid With a Bike

  published April 12, 2012

  The Kid With a Bike, the new film from Belgian art-house legends Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, begins with Cyril, a scrappy... More >>

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  Father and son Talmudic scholars grapple with each other and the truth in Footnote

  published April 12, 2012

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

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  Being Flynn can't stop telling us exactly what to feel

  published March 15, 2012

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

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  Tilda Swinton and her problem child in We Need To Talk About Kevin

  published March 8, 2012

  In Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin, Tilda Swinton lives out an urban bohemian's worst nightmare. Forced to give up her... More >>

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  Ryan Reynolds' bod is the asset in men-on-the-run thriller Safe House

  published February 9, 2012

  He's sooo hot," the woman sitting next to me at the screening of Safe House sighed to her friend as the film's opening images of Ryan... More >>

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  Sundance, in Crisis: The 2012 fest was thick with the anxieties of our times

  published February 2, 2012

  It's potentially dangerous to look at the lineup of the Sundance Film Festival, which ended Sunday, as a reflection of the character of... More >>

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  The parental rage of brownstone Brooklyn in Carnage

  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 Winslet as... More >>