Karina Longworth

In Steven Soderbergh's 1999 film The Limey, Peter Fonda's Terry Valentine dreamily describes the 1960s as "a place that maybe only exists in your imagination ... , unless you think of a bucket as classic stoner munchies," he wrote back. "I suppose it's a trope because white fried chicken has......

A 2009 Cannes winner just now having its L.A. premiere (it opened in New York last summer), Dogtooth is hyperrealist sci-fi detailing an (anti)social experiment gone awry. The matriarch and patriarch of an upper-class Greek family have taught their three nameless, college-age offspring an alternate language: A sea is a......

Behold: possibly the internet's only 2010 Year in Film wrap up with no mention of The Social Network in sight. Our top ten most viewed Film stories of the year cover some perennial hot-on-the-interwebs subjects--sex, drugs and Roman Polanski--as well as a few less-likely to hit Google Trends (Who knew......

When the MPAA handed Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine an NC-17 rating this fall, cynics suggested the so-called "kiss of death" was better publicity for the gently experimental marriage drama than anything famously crafty distributor Harvey Weinstein could buy. When the rating was reversed this month — downgraded to an R......

Another Year, the 10th feature-length British soap written and directed by Mike Leigh, concerns a year in the life of Tom (Jim Broadbent) and Gerri (Ruth Sheen), the happiest post-middle-age married couple in the whole of the London suburbs. Heading into their fifth decade together, Tom and Gerri are healthy......

Facebook mastermind Mark Zuckerberg has been named by TIME Magazine as the 2010 Man of the Year. Countless awards bodies, polls (including the Village Voice/LA Weekly Film Poll) and film critics groups (including the LA Film Critics Association, of which I am a member) have named The Social Network, David......

COUNTRY STRONG The Courtney Love of country stars, Kelly Canter (an inconsistently twanging Gwyneth Paltrow), has been forced by her spectacular onstage meltdowns into rehab. There, her décolletage decked out in black lace and a bling cross, she jams in more than one sense with singer-songwriter-janitor Beau (Tron fox Garrett......

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 interpreted as a sign of the decline in taste, intelligence and moral rectitude of the populace. Every four years, a Jackass movie opens at No......

Sofia Coppola had her 21st birthday party at the Chateau Marmont — a fact she had forgotten until Phil Pavel, the hotel manager, reminded her while she was there shooting her new film, Somewhere. It's the first feature to be granted clearance to shoot extensively inside the rooms and on......

Based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire, John Cameron Mitchell's Rabbit Hole plops us down in the lives of Becca (Nicole Kidman, who also produced) and Howie (Aaron Eckhart), 40ish bourgie marrieds rattling around an East Coast dream house. In the film's first scenes, the couple acts out......