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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  Superegos Collide in the All-Star Avengers. Things Go Boom.

  published May 3, 2012

  At the start of Joss Whedon's long-awaited Marvel superhero supergroup flick, The Avengers, the Tesseract — a powerful,... More >>

• Brit Marling Preaches End Times in Sound of My Voice

  published May 3, 2012

  Twentysomething Silver Lake couple Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius) talk their way into an unnamed cult that meets in the... More >>

• Keyhole: A Dream-world of Ideas, Bolted Shut

  published April 12, 2012

  The latest phantasmagoria of cinematic quotation from Canadian director Guy Maddin, Keyhole is an extremely loose adaptation of... More >>

• A Lost Boy and a Sliver of Hope in The Kid With a Bike.

  published April 5, 2012

  The Kid With a Bike, the new film from Belgian art-house legends Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, begins with Cyril, a scrappy... More >>

• Footnote: Father and Son Talmudic Scholars Grapple With Each Other and the Truth.

  published March 29, 2012

  In the first scene of Israel's Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee, Footnote, Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi) — a... More >>

• Being Flynn Can't Stop Telling Us Exactly What to Feel

  published March 8, 2012

  Written and directed by Paul Weitz, Being Flynn is an adaptation of Nick Flynn's 2004 memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck... More >>

• Bad Mommy

  published March 1, 2012

  In Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin, Tilda Swinton lives out an urban bohemian's worst nightmare. Forced to give up her... More >>

• Woody Harrelson is a Bad Cop Getting Worse in Rampart

  published February 16, 2012

  Directed by Oren Moverman (The Messenger) from a script by Moverman and L.A. noir master James Ellroy, Rampart tracks the... More >>

• Safe House is Action-Packed with a Six-Pack

  published February 9, 2012

  "He's sooo hot," the woman sitting next to me at the screening of Safe House sighed to her friend as the film's opening images of... More >>

• The Iron Lady: Pity the Poor PM

  published January 12, 2012

  In the first scene of The Iron Lady, which re-teams director Phyllida Lloyd with her Mamma Mia! star Meryl Streep,... More >>

• Carnage: White People With "Problems"

  published January 12, 2012

  Roman Polanski's adaptation of Yasmina Reza's hit play, Carnage, stars Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Christoph Waltz and Kate... More >>

• In The Land of Blood and Honey: Angelina Goes to War

  published January 12, 2012

  It's 1992 at the start of In the Land of Blood and Honey, and Ajla (Zana Marjanovic) and Danijel (Goran Kostic) are about to hook... More >>