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

• L.A. Weekly's Karina Longworth Names Her Top 10 Films of 2010

  published December 30, 2010

  Every four years, the American people act en masse to send a message to the nation's power brokers, and every four years, this vote is... More >>

• Burlesque: Christina Aguilera Is Squandered in This Rehash of Yesterday's Musicals

  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 >>

• Morning Glory: Rachel McAdams Is Married to Her Job and Loving It

  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 bodice... More >>

• Due Date: Zach Galifianakis Steals Another Todd Phillips Buddy Comedy

  published November 4, 2010

  In Due Date, a skinny, scowly, and dryly self-referential Robert Downey Jr. meets a chubby, beardy, quasi-autistic Zach Galifianakis... More >>

• Stone: Edward Norton, Master of the Dual Role, Talks About His New Movie

  published October 14, 2010

  Movie stars make a living peddling distinct, definable personalities. Edward Norton, a movie star who might have enjoyed the comparative... More >>

• Catfish Gets at the Truth About Connecting In the Age of Facebook

  published September 23, 2010

  What is Catfish? That question is an implicit part of the film's marketing campaign, which, with the tagline, "Don't let anyone tell you... More >>

• Toronto International Film Festival: There Is No One Definitive Festival Experience -- Here's One

  published September 23, 2010

  It was the best of TIFFs, it was the worst of TIFFs. While the trade pubs breathlessly trumpeted the flurry of deals that took place at the... More >>

• I'm Still Here: Joaquin Phoenix Implodes to Prove a Point to Hollywood

  published September 9, 2010

  I'm Still Here — "that Joaquin Phoenix movie" — capitalizes on an anxiety that's very of-the-moment, uniting pop cultural... More >>

• Machete: When It's Not LOL Funny, Robert Rodriguez's Latest Is Downright Dull

  published September 2, 2010

  In 1993, inspired by his second cousin Danny Trejo's work in Desperado, Robert Rodriguez wrote a screenplay around the character of Machete... More >>

• The Switch: Jennifer Aniston Seeks an Attractive Sperm Donor and Ends Up With Jason Bateman

  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 deemed fit... More >>

• Salt: Angelina Jolie's Contradictions Buoy an Otherwise Rote Film

  published July 22, 2010

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

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  MacGruber and Hot Tub Time Machine: The Me Decade Makes a Comeback

  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 >>

• Ridley Scott's 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 something of a... More >>

• Kick-Ass: Meet a Gang of Superheroes in the YouTube Age

  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 unadulterated... More >>

• Date Night: Tina Fey and Steve Carell Go Lowbrow -- and Chemistry Free

  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 >>

• Noah Baumbach Talks About His New Film, Greenberg, the DIY Ethos, and Learning to Drive

  published March 25, 2010

  Noah Baumbach talks about his new film, Greenberg, the DIY ethos, and learning to drive. Noah Baumbach is 40 years old. He just learned... More >>

• The Year SxSW Film Broke

  published March 25, 2010

  The tagline for the recently concluded 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival was "Tomorrow Happens Here," slick marketing shorthand for the... More >>

• The Runaways: Sex, Drugs, and Feminist Thought

  published March 18, 2010

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

• Cop Out: Kevin Smith's Latest Is a Cliché-Filled Movie-Trivia Comedy So Crazy it Just Might Work

  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: Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Garner, Ashton Kutcher — Too Many Stars and Too Many Storylines

  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 the... More >>