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

• "Potiche" Serves as a Feminist Parable

  published March 31, 2011

  As Suzanne, Catherine Deneuve plays the title role in Potiche, a 1970s period piece that translates as "trophy wife." She is... More >>

• "Jane Eyre": Cary Fukunaga's Version Stresses the Pursuit of Independence

  published March 24, 2011

  Director Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre) fragments Charlotte Brontë's classic novel, introducing us to Jane (Mia Wasikowska) as a young... More >>

• "Red Riding Hood" Movie Review: Like "Twilight," but Worse

  published March 10, 2011

  In a wintry woodland in an unspecified time long, long ago, teen beauty Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) is arranged to marry brooding, hunky, rich dude... More >>

• "The Adjustment Bureau" Is Too Talky but Still Has Pleasures

  published March 3, 2011

  In The Adjustment Bureau, Matt Damon plays David Norris, a Brooklyn-born, bar-fight-prone congressman rocketing to the front of a Senate... More >>

• Choosing Between the Smug Couple or Their Loser Friends in "Another Year"

  published January 27, 2011

  Mike Leigh's Another Year concerns a year in the life of Tom (Jim Broadbent) and Gerri (Ruth Sheen), the happiest post-middle-aged... 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" Review: Natalie Portman Follows "Black Swan" With —Surprise— an Awfully Good Romantic Comedy

  published January 20, 2011

  No Strings Attached is extremely narrow in focus: It's "just" about two people in lust struggling to put away their respective baggage... More >>

• Love Is a One-Way Street in "Blue Valentine"

  published January 13, 2011

  Derek Cianfrance's divorce drama Blue Valentine is the story of how a couple (Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams) travels from too-cute... More >>

• Grieving Tastefully in "Rabbit Hole"

  published January 13, 2011

  John Cameron Mitchell's Rabbit Hole plops us down in the lives of Becca (Nicole Kidman) and Howie (Aaron Eckhart), 40-ish upper-class... More >>

• "Country Strong" Is Sillier Than Gwyneth Paltrow's GOOP

  published January 6, 2011

  Kelly Canter is the Courtney Love of country stars. Spectacular meltdowns on stage have forced Kelly (an inconsistently twanging Gwyneth... More >>