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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2010 Stories by Karina Longworth

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  COVER STORY

  From Party Girl to Oscar Winner, Sofia Coppola's Journey to Somewhere.

  published December 30, 2010

  Sofia Coppola had her 21st birthday party at the Chateau Marmont—a fact she had forgotten until Phil Pavel, the manager of the hotel,... More >>

• Karina Longworth's Top 10 Movies of 2010

  published December 30, 2010

  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... More >>

• Rabbit Hole: The Lifeless Pursuit of "Normal" Life.

  published December 23, 2010

  Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire, John Cameron Mitchell’s Rabbit Hole plops us down in the lives of... More >>

• Burlesque Squanders Its Hottest Asset: Xtina.

  published November 25, 2010

  "She doesn't sing that way because she's had it easy." This is how Tess (Cher), the long-suffering owner of the nightclub at the center of... More >>

• Morning Glory: Married to the Job.

  published November 11, 2010

  In the climax of Morning Glory, Rachel McAdams is dressed in a flesh-colored, diaphanous cocktail dress, its halter top and tight... More >>

• Due Date: Zach Galifianakis Steals Another Todd Phillips Buddy Comedy

  published November 4, 2010

  In Due Date, a skinny, scowly and dryly self-referential Robert Downey Jr. meets a chubby, beardy, quasi-autistic Zach... More >>

• Stone: Ed Norton, Master of the Dual Role, Dances with Himself.

  published October 14, 2010

  Movie stars make a living peddling distinct, definable personalities. Edward Norton, a movie star who might have enjoyed the comparative... More >>

• I'm Still Here: Joaquin Phoenix Makes a Point About Something. Maybe.

  published September 9, 2010

  I'm Still Here—"that Joaquin Phoenix movie"—capitalizes on an anxiety that's very of-the-moment, uniting pop cultural... More >>

• Machete: When It's Not Funny, It's Just Dull.

  published September 2, 2010

  In 1993, inspired by his second cousin Danny Trejo's work in Desperado, Robert Rodriguez wrote a screenplay around the character of... More >>

• The Switch: Beautiful People Make a Baby.

  published August 19, 2010

  The Switch is a loose adaptation of a Jeffrey Eugenides story called "Baster," published in The New Yorker in 1996... More >>

• Salt: Angelina Jolie Kicks Ass Where Tom Cruise Couldn't.

  published July 22, 2010

  Salt, famously the Spy Flick Rewritten for Angelina Jolie After Tom Cruise Dropped Out, has been publicized as the cinematic... More >>

• MacGruber: Man and Mullet on a Mission

  published May 20, 2010

  MacGruber (Will Forte), a highly decorated soldier of fortune known for "making life-saving inventions out of household materials," faked his... More >>

• Robin Hood joins the Tea Party

  published May 13, 2010

  Is it an accident that Ridley Scott's Robin Hood plays like a rousing love letter to the Tea Party movement? It's certainly... More >>

• Kick-Ass Is Just Half-Assed

  published April 15, 2010

  Kick-Ass, the Matthew Vaughn-directed adaptation of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s graphic novel, sets itself up as an... More >>

• Date Night, a Romantic Comedy Sans Romance and Comedy

  published April 8, 2010

  "We are not these people! We are a boring couple from New Jersey!" complains Claire Foster (Tina Fey) to her husband, Phil (Steve Carell),... More >>

• The Runaways: A Rock Biopic with Sex, Drugs and Feminist Thought

  published March 18, 2010

  There's an obvious stunt element to the casting of The Runaways: a punked-up, barely legal Kristen Stewart and a still underage,... More >>

• Cop Out Is A Cliché-Filled Movie-Trivia Comedy. That's So Crazy It Just Might Work

  published February 25, 2010

  Cop Out establishes its movie lineage right away, with a slow-motion toe-to-head tilt up, set to The Beastie Boys' "No Sleep Till... More >>

• So Many Stars, So Many Storylines: It's a Valentine's Day Massacre!

  published February 11, 2010

  In Pretty Woman, director Garry Marshall's personal cinematic high score, the opening credits close (and the closing credits open) with... More >>