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

• Win Win: Paul Giammatti Wrestles Again With Midlife.

  published March 24, 2011

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

• Jane Eyre: A Woman of Independent Means.

  published March 17, 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... More >>

• The Adjustment Bureau: Time to Rejigger Your Expectations

  published March 3, 2011

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

• Repo Chick: A Woman Moves in on the Alex Cox Series.

  published February 3, 2011

  A not-quite sequel to the 1984 L.A. punk classic Repo Man, Alex Cox's Repo Chick is both an extreme formal experiment and... More >>

• Another Year: Smug Couple or Their Loser Friends? Your Choice.

  published January 27, 2011

  Another Year, the 10th feature-length British soap written and directed by Mike Leigh, concerns a year in the life... More >>

• The Company Men Takes Pity on the Emasculated Executive.

  published January 20, 2011

  Tracking the parallel trajectories of three employees laid off from cushy corporate jobs at the same Boston-based manufacturing conglomerate,... More >>

• No Strings Attached: Natalie Portman follows up Black Swan with an awfully good romantic comedy.

  published January 20, 2011

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

• And Everything Is Going Fine: The Spalding Gray Portfolio

  published January 20, 2011

  "Maybe I should just tell you some of the facts as I remember them," Spalding Gray says a few minutes into And Everything Is Going Fine,... More >>

• Dogtooth: Teething on Black Comedy

  published January 20, 2011

  A 2009 Cannes winner, Dogtooth is hyperrealist sci-fi detailing an (anti)social experiment gone awry. The matriarch and patriarch... More >>

• Blue Valentine plumbs the emotional depths of a marriage unraveling.

  published January 6, 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 >>