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

• The Dictator: Sacha Baron Cohen Misses the Comedy Revolution

  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 >>

• Sound of My Voice: Brit Marling Preaches End Times

  published May 17, 2012

  Twentysomething Silver Lake couple Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius) talk their way into an unnamed cult that meets in the... More >>

• Bobcat Goldthwait Is Making Comedies in His Own Register

  published May 10, 2012

  Bobcat Goldthwait is moving farther and farther away from Hollywood — the industry that paid him to star in three Police Academy... More >>

• The Avengers: Superheroes Bump Superegos

  published May 3, 2012

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

• Whit Stillman Returns Triumphant with Damsels in Distress

  published April 19, 2012

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

• This Is Not a Film: Jafar Panahi Is a Filmmaker Who Isn't

  published April 12, 2012

  In 2010, the internationally celebrated Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was arrested at his home. A neorealist who has been a vocal opponent of... More >>

• Footnote: Father and Son Grapple Over Their Talmudic Scholarship

  published March 22, 2012

  In the first scene of 2012 Israel's Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee, Footnote, Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi) — a... More >>

• Being Flynn Can’t Stop Telling Us 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,... More >>

• Will Ferrell-in-Spanish Flick, Casa de Mi Padre, a "Preposterous" Concept

  published March 15, 2012

  How did the Will Ferrell-in-Spanish movie ever get made? Casa de Mi Padre is a Spanish-language comedy starring Will Ferrell as... More >>

• Bad Cop: Police Misconduct, Ellroy-style, in Rampart

  published March 1, 2012

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

• Safe House: Men on the Run in Run-of-the-Mill Thriller

  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 >>

• We Need to Talk About Kevin: We Have a Problem Child

  published January 26, 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 >>

• Sundance 2012 Was Thick with the Anxieties of our Times

  published January 26, 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 >>

• In the Land of Blood and Honey: Angelina Jolie Goes to Bosnia

  published January 12, 2012

  It's 1992 at the start of In the Land of Blood and Honey, and Ajla (Zana Marjanovic) and Danijel (Goran Kostic) are about to hook up at... More >>

• Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady

  published January 12, 2012

  The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher as victimized woman In the first scene of The Iron Lady, which re-teams director Phyllida Lloyd... More >>

• Karina Longworth Looks Ahead to the Most Anticipated Films of 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 >>