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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  Sleepwalk With Me Review: Mike Birbiglia's Concept Was Better on the Radio

  published August 30, 2012

  It's pretty Pollyannaish to complain when companies that are in the business of making money on movies make certain movies solely to make... More >>

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  The Ambassador Review: Mads Brugger Is the Sacha Baron Cohen of Denmark

  published August 30, 2012

  The Horror, the Horror The blitzkrieg of award season is right around the corner, and with it, we can expect an onslaught of stunt... More >>

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  Compliance Director Craig Zobel on Why People Do Crazy Things Just Because They're Told To

  published August 23, 2012

  Like antidepressants, artificial sugars, Botox and other miracle inventions of the past century, corporate culture became an omnipresent fact... More >>

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  Cosmopolis Review: Inside Robert Pattinson's Head

  published August 16, 2012

  Boyishly lean, with a brooding angularity that suggests both high maintenance and nefarious vacancy, Robert Pattinson has managed to fill the... More >>

• Linklater, Samurai and Jean Arthur: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  published Aug 08, 2012

  Our weekly list of special movie events to check out in L.A.: Thursday, Aug. 9 Don't Knock the Rock, Cinefamily's annual summer series of seminal rock & roll flicks co-founded by L.A. Weekly People... More >>

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  The Campaign Review: Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis in an Amusing but Toothless Satire

  published August 9, 2012

  The Campaign begins with an on-screen quote attributed to Ross Perot: "War has rules. Mud wrestling has rules. Politics has no rules."... More >>

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  Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry: A New Documentary About the Artist's Chess Game With the Chinese Government

  published August 2, 2012

  Chinese artist, activist and antagonist Ai Weiwei became a worldwide cause célèbre in April 2011 when he was arrested by... More >>

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  Julie Delpy Is Fighting Everything That's Wrong With Movies

  published August 2, 2012

  "My son is sick right now, covered in zits. It's not contagious — I mean, it's contagious, but don't worry: Grown-ups don't catch it.... More >>

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  Dark Horse Review: Why It Might Be Todd Solondz's Best Film

  published July 26, 2012

  Todd Solondz's strange, oddly moving new film stars Jordan Gelber as Abe, a fat, mid-30-something who lives with his parents and works for his... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  James Murphy on Never Being Recognized, Directing the Directors of LCD's New Concert Doc and Why He Can't Live in L.A.

  published Jul 23, 2012

  See also: Lost His Edge | James Murphy and a New Concert Documentary Reflect on the End of LCD Soundsystem In our music feature this week, we spoke with former frontman James Murphy about Shut Up and... More >>

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  The Queen of Versailles Review

  published July 19, 2012

  "I don't want to give you lessons in self-denial and social responsibility," an art dealer tells her billionaire boy client in Don DeLillo's... More >>

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  The Connection

  published July 19, 2012

  Shirley Clarke's The Connection is a faux document of a day in the life of a group of heroin addicts holed up in a one-room New York... More >>

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  Lost His Edge | James Murphy and a New Concert Documentary Reflect on the End of LCD Soundsystem

  published July 19, 2012

  "When we started the band, suddenly we were, like, New York famous. We could get into anyplace, but you know — I was never recognized on... More >>

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  Trishna: Michael Winterbottom Brings Thomas Hardy to Mumbai

  published July 12, 2012

  Michael Winterbottom is multitasking — like that's a surprise. He has made a dozen films in the past decade, as varied as the Steve... More >>

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  Katy Perry: Part of Me Review

  published July 5, 2012

  From bubblegum-bicurious novelty "I Kissed a Girl" on, Katy Perry has built a career on glorious brain-dead–with-a-wink odes to... More >>

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  Savages Review

  published July 5, 2012

  Welcome to the recession, boys," says John Travolta's DEA double-agent profiteer in Oliver Stone's Savages, based on Don Winslow's... More >>

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  Magic Mike Review: Channing Tatum's Exotic Dancing Past, Onscreen

  published June 28, 2012

  When Channing Tatum stood up and revealed his bare ass to the camera a minute or two into Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike — which... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Woody Allen on His New Film To Rome With Love and Some Very Old Themes

  published June 21, 2012

  1980. Woody Allen has just had the biggest hit of his career with Manhattan — a love letter to the titular... More >>

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  Vampira and Me: L.A. Film Festival Premieres R. H. Greene's New Documentary

  published June 14, 2012

  The Finland-born, Oregon-bred actress Maila Nurmi's resume reads like the stuff of Hollywood legend. A New York showgirl, she was "discovered"... More >>

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  Aubrey Plaza and Greta Gerwig, Meta-Ingenues: Safety Not Guaranteed and Lola Versus

  published June 7, 2012

  With her high cheekbones, feline brown eyes and heart-shaped mouth, actress Aubrey Plaza is bombshell hot. But, in an unusual twist for a... More >>

• Cannes Film Festival 2012: Highlights and Lowlights

  published May 31, 2012

  The Cannes Film Festival (which ended its two-week run on Saturday) is nothing if not a study in contradictions. Studio product and tabloid... More >>

• Marion Cotillard as a Hot Amputee in Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone at Cannes Film Festival

  published May 24, 2012

  Within hours of its premiere last week at the Cannes Film Festival, Rust and Bone was hailed by some as this year's version of The... More >>

• Young Love, Wes Anderson-style, in Moonrise Kingdom

  published May 24, 2012

  It's 1965, the rainy end of summer on the rocky coast of a fictional New England isle. Twelve-year-old Sam (Jared Gilman), a scrawny,... More >>

• Cannes Film Festival: Brad Pitt in Killing Them Softly and Gael Garcia Bernal in No

  published May 23, 2012

  The opening credits of the Brad Pitt-starring Killing Them Softly are set to snatches of Barack Obama's 2008 Democratic Convention speech, focused on the notion of "the American promise," jarringly ju... More >>

• Liz Meriwether: Nice Quirk if You Can Get It

  published May 22, 2012

  One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. If you haven't seen New Girl -- the Fox sitcom that premiered last September... More >>