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

• Meek's Cutoff: Go West, Young Women

  published April 14, 2011

  Meek's Cutoff, like all of director Kelly Reichardt's previous features (River of Grass, Old Joy,... More >>

• Arthur

  published April 7, 2011

  ARTHUR In this rethink of the 1981 screwball throwback, the titular drunken heir, originally played by lovable lump Dudley Moore,... More >>

• Arthur

  published April 7, 2011

  ARTHUR In this rethink of the 1981 screwball throwback, the titular drunken heir, originally played by lovable lump Dudley... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Kevin Smith: "I Am So, Like, Sick of Movies and Shit"

  published April 7, 2011

  Kevin Smith exhales a cloud of pot smoke. “Does this bother you?” he asks, looking up from his pipe as I enter his backstage... More >>

• Arthur

  published March 31, 2011

  ARTHUR In this rethink of the 1981 screwball throwback, the titular drunken heir, originally played by lovable lump Dudley Moore,... More >>

• Super

  published March 31, 2011

  SUPER When a local crime boss (Kevin Bacon) lures away his wife (Liv Tyler), lifelong pushover Frank (Rainn Wilson) —... More >>

• Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  published March 31, 2011

  Thursday Kick off the weekend in a big way: The Aero Theatre is showing a 70 mm print of 2001: A Space... More >>

• Film Review: Every Man for Himself at LACMA

  published March 31, 2011

  The Jean-Luc Godard film screening at LACMA this weekend goes by many names. Made in 1979 and currently in the midst of a nationwide rerelease... More >>

• Film Review: Rubber

  published March 31, 2011

  In Rubber's pre-credits prologue, a man dressed like a cop (Stephen Spinella) climbs out of the trunk of a car and delivers a deadpan... More >>

• Peep World

  published March 24, 2011

  PEEP WORLD Twenty-nine-year-old Nathan (Ben Schwartz) has one best-selling novel under his belt, and already he's modeling... More >>

• Last Chance Cassavetes: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  published March 24, 2011

  Thursday Cinefamily's monster John Cassavetes retrospective ends on Friday with a party, an encore... More >>

• Catherine Deneuve's Potiche

  published March 24, 2011

  The opening title card of François Ozon's 1977-set Potiche seems to take design inspiration from the exploitation films of that... More >>

• Win Win

  published March 17, 2011

  WIN WIN Paul Giamatti continues contemporary cinema's longest pre-midlife crisis in Win Win as Mike, yet another schlubby... More >>

• LACMA Salutes 50 Years of Cannes Discoveries

  published March 17, 2011

  Critics' Week — aka la Semaine de la critique, the Cannes Film Festival's emerging-filmmakers sidebar responsible for providing... More >>

• One-Hit Wanda

  published March 17, 2011

  "Barbara Loden has youth, beauty, talent, a Tony Award, her name in Who's Who — and the fascinating Elia Kazan for... More >>

• Red Riding Hood

  published March 10, 2011

  RED RIDING HOOD In a wintry woodland in an unspecified time long, long ago, teen beauty Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) is arranged... More >>

• Redland Review

  published March 10, 2011

  The dark, hallucinatory fable Redland, a 2009 film festival lapper just now receiving a limited release, begins and climaxes with two... More >>

• Jane Eyre Review

  published March 10, 2011

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

• John Cassavetes Series at Cinefamily

  published March 10, 2011

  "We only have two hours to change people's lives." So John Cassavetes told an interviewer in 1972, while promoting... More >>

• Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  published March 3, 2011

  Thursday Cinefamily tributes the great British satirist Chris Morris with a three-day run of his recent... More >>

• Dear Lemon Lima

  published March 3, 2011

  DEAR LEMON LIMA Thanks in part to her half-Eskimo heritage, brainy freshman Vanessa (Savanah Wiltfong) lands a scholarship at... More >>

• The Adjustment Bureau

  published March 3, 2011

  THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU In Bourne Ultimatum screenwriter George Nolfi's directorial debut, Matt Damon plays David Norris, a... More >>

• Elvira Live

  published March 3, 2011

  At the height of her fame as horror hostess/spooky sexpot spokeswoman Elvira, Cassandra Peterson made a bold move to expand the... More >>

• The Red Chapel Review

  published March 3, 2011

  Produced by Lars Von Trier's Zentropa and partially shot through a fish-eye lens for maximum surreality, The Red... More >>

• Heartbeats Review

  published March 3, 2011

  The second feature from 21-year-old wunderkind Xavier Dolan, Heartbeats is an Instagram of The Way We Fuck Now... More >>