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

• A Boy, His Toy and the History of Cinema

  published November 24, 2011

  Martin Scorsese's first foray into big-budget family filmmaking — as well as his inaugural effort in 3-D — Hugo is a... More >>

• The Skin I Live In

  published November 3, 2011

  The morality of the mad-scientist tale has remained more or less fixed since the beginning of sound cinema: From Dr. Frankenstein's hubristic... More >>

• Footloose 2011

  published October 13, 2011

  In hindsight, the 1984 hit Footloose — starring Kevin Bacon and directed by Herbert Ross — along with its contemporary... More >>

• The Ides of March

  published October 6, 2011

  A procedural on the political manipulation of medium and message, George Clooney's fourth directorial effort is bookended with scenes of media-op... More >>

• Contagion

  published September 8, 2011

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

• Our Idiot Brother

  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 — a man... More >>

• One Day

  published August 18, 2011

  Directed by Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig from a screenplay by David Nicholls, based on his novel, One Day stars Anne Hathaway as... More >>

• Mean Girls vs. the Maids

  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 ostentatious,... More >>

• Earth Angel

  published August 11, 2011

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

• The Change-Up

  published August 4, 2011

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

• Not Crazy Enough

  published July 28, 2011

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

• In the Face of Obstacles - 3-D

  published July 21, 2011

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

• White Man's Lament

  published July 7, 2011

  There's a scene in Horrible Bosses in which Jennifer Aniston, playing a dentist who habitually sexually harasses her weakling male... More >>

• Funny Like a Not Funny Guy

  published June 23, 2011

  From Tad Friend's New Yorker profile of Anna Faris (which Jezebel.com reblogged under the headline... More >>

• Woody Allen's Way-Back Machine

  published June 2, 2011

  Anebbishy screenwriter who longs to publish a novel, Gil (Owen Wilson) is tentatively working on a book set in a nostalgia shop — much to... More >>

• This Is a Man's World

  published May 12, 2011

  Bridesmaids is a high-profile test case. Directed by Paul Feig (a sitcom journeyman most lovingly known as the creator of Freaks... More >>

• Gothic Type

  published March 24, 2011

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

• Benevolent Force

  published March 3, 2011

  The Adjustment Bureau is Bourne Ultimatum screenwriter George Nolfi's directorial debut, an extremely loose adaptation of... More >>

• Seasonal Disaffected Disorder

  published February 3, 2011

  Another Year, the tenth feature-length British soap written and directed by Mike Leigh, concerns a year in the life of Tom (Jim... More >>

• Life After Black Swan

  published January 20, 2011

  Ivan Reitman, master of the high-concept, big-budget Hollywood comedy (Ghostbusters, Dave), would seem an unlikely candidate to... More >>

• Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

  published January 13, 2011

  When the MPAA handed Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine an NC-17 rating this fall, cynics suggested that the so-called "kiss of... More >>