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

• Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  published September 8, 2011

  Thurs., Sept. 8 Tonight's the final night to catch Littlerock, Mike Ott's award-winning... More >>

• Drive: Albert Brooks Launches His Third Career Act

  published September 8, 2011

  When Albert Brooks greets me in the reception area of his Beverly Hills office, I immediately recognize his shirt. The baggy, faded red,... More >>

• Contagion Review

  published September 8, 2011

  Currently the fifth-to-last film on Steven Soderbergh's ever-expanding pre-retirement slate, Contagion opens on Day 2 of a global... More >>

• Toronto Film Festival Preview: 10 Must-See Films

  published Sep 07, 2011

  The Toronto Film Festival kicks off tomorrow, offering the usual mix of Oscar bait, new films from foreign and experimental masters, and basically every conceivable thing in between. With the caveat ... More >>

• Your Weekly To-Do List

  published September 1, 2011

  Thurs., Sept. 1 The Arbor, my current choice for the best documentary of the year, concludes... More >>

• Littlerock Review

  published September 1, 2011

  The sleeper hit of the 2010 film festival and indie awards circuit, Mike Ott's moody, microbudget Littlerock patiently observes the... More >>

• The Best and Worst of the Summer Movie Season

  published September 1, 2011

  After opening in second place behind Rise of the Planet of the Apes on its debut weekend, The Help topped... More >>

• Our Idiot Brother Review

  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... More >>

• One Day Review

  published August 18, 2011

  One Day stars Anne Hathaway as Emma, a too-serious would-be writer in coke-bottle glasses and combat boots. She's nursing a crush on... More >>

• Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  published August 18, 2011

  Thurs., Aug. 18 Evan Glodell's apocalyptic, controversy-stirring festival darling Bellflower... More >>

• Kevin Smith's Red State at the New Beverly

  published August 18, 2011

  When we put Kevin Smith on our cover in April, the Clerks writer-director was telling the world that he planned to... More >>

• The Help Review

  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... More >>

• Miranda July's New Film The Future and MOCA Exhibit "Eleven Heavy Things"

  published August 4, 2011

  Miranda July clutters her speech with a surplus of "likes" and "you knows," conspicuous even for a 37-year-old living in a... More >>

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  The Change-Up Review

  published August 4, 2011

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

• The Myth of the American Sleepover Review

  published July 28, 2011

  An earnest, ethereal riff on the one-night-in-a-high-school-caste-system interwoven-narrative ensemble piece, writer-director David Robert... More >>

• Crazy, Stupid, Love Review

  published July 28, 2011

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

• Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  published July 21, 2011

  Thurs., July 21 The Honeymoon Killers, librettist Leonard Kastle's sordid true love story... More >>

• Brit Marling in Another Earth

  published July 21, 2011

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

• Captain America Review

  published July 21, 2011

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

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  FEATURED STORY

  Marie Losier's P-Orridge Film The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye: Best Documentary Ever About Husband and Wife Surgery to Become Copies of Each Other

  published Jul 08, 2011

  "Sex is a virus," says Richard Foreman in Marie Losier's short film about his experimental theater work, The Ontological Cowboy, screening Sunday at LA Filmforum. "Let's not kid ourselves: we're dri... More >>

• Bicurious Girls In Bikinis, on Acid: Vacation! at Outfest

  published Jul 08, 2011

  The third feature from Brooklyn-based Zach Clark, Vacation! is a psychological study wrapped up in a girls-will-be-girls beach-party movie and given a post-post-punk spin. Nerdy Sugar (Maggie Ross) ... More >>

• Michael Rapaport's A Tribe Called Quest Documentary

  published July 7, 2011

  Michael Rapaport answers the door to his Hancock Park house with a vague look of panic on his familiar, strawberry-blond... More >>

• Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  published July 7, 2011

  Thu., July 8 The Levi-sponsored Wild Goodness — a microfestival of food films and themed events at Cinefamily... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Horrible Bosses Review: The Recession Makes Straight Dudes Worry About Getting Raped

  published Jul 06, 2011

  There's a scene in Horrible Bosses in which Jennifer Aniston, playing a dentist who habitually sexually harasses her weakling male hygienist (Charlie Day), repeatedly says the word "pussy." Her charac... More >>

• Conan O'Brien Documentary Review

  published June 23, 2011

  "I am angry," Conan O'Brien admits in Rodman Flender's tour doc, Conan O'Brien Can't Stop. "I'm trying not to be ... but sometimes I'm... More >>