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Articles by Karina Longworth
My Top 10 Films of 2012
My Top 10 Films of 2012
By Karina Longworth • December 19, 2012 12:00 am

More than ever, boiling this concluding year down to the 10 “best” movies feels both arbitrary and reductive. Ideally, I’d…

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Tarantino also plays a small, funny role late in Django.
Quentin Tarantino Talks About His Slave-Era Superhero
By Karina Longworth • December 18, 2012 12:00 am

Now a prosperous Hollywood insider, he tells of his struggle to make Django Unchained.

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Heidecker never breaks hipster character.
The Comedy: Look at That Stupid Hipster
By Karina Longworth • December 4, 2012 12:00 am

A highly improvised fictional exposé in search of the elusive heart and soul of hipster nihilism, The Comedy stars alt-comic…

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Mirren's Alma is the heroine of Hitchcock.
Hitchcock: In Which the Director Is Treated as...
By Karina Longworth • November 27, 2012 12:00 am

Early in this movie, Alfred Hitchcock (played by Sir Anthony Hopkins with a sack of fat connecting chin to neck)…

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Pitt's Jackie kills for capitalism's sake.
Killing Them Softly: Brad Pitt Shoots and Lectures
By Karina Longworth • November 27, 2012 12:00 am

An adaptation of George V. Higgins’ 1974 novel Cogan’s Trade, Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly anatomizes a self-policing underground economy…

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Don't go in the bay! For God's sake, keep out of the bay!
The Bay: Barry Levinson’s Aquatic Horror
By Karina Longworth • October 30, 2012 12:00 am

This found-footage eco-horror cheapie—in which a waterborne parasite mutates into an unstoppable human-flesh-eating scourge thanks to the march of progress…

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Happy couple Garcia Bernal and Furstenberg with their guide (Bidzina Gujabidze, at center).
The Loneliest Planet: A Trek Rudely Interrupted
By Karina Longworth • October 30, 2012 12:00 am

The Loneliest Planet begins with a close-up of a beautiful woman, naked and trembling. It’s not what it sounds like….

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Justice (left) on her Halloween rescue mission.
Fun Size: An Enjoyable Update on John Hughes’...
By Karina Longworth • October 23, 2012 12:00 am

Gossip Girl and The O.C., Josh Schwartz’s teen TV shows, are sly bait-and-switches. Both are easily marketable for their hot…

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Scenes from inside 8 Mile Road.
Detropia: The Fall and Rise of the Motor...
By Karina Longworth • October 16, 2012 12:00 am

When it comes to cost-cutting, downsizing, and philosophical and practical compromise, how low is it possible to go before there’s…

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Hollywood to the rescue: Goodman (left) and Arkin.
Argo: Ben Affleck Rescues the Hostages From Iran
By Karina Longworth • October 9, 2012 12:00 am

Set amid the 1979–80 Iran hostage crisis, Ben Affleck’s Argo is a “gritty” historical drama overwhelmed by its love of…

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Matt Bettinelli-Olpin in the short "10/31/98."
V/H/S: A Horror Anthology Prelude to Halloween
By Karina Longworth • October 2, 2012 12:00 am

In this faux-found-footage horror anthology (containing material directed by Joe Swanberg, Adam Wingard, Ti West, and others), a crew of…

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Film critic Karina Longworth is reporting from the Toronto International Film Festival
Film critic Karina Longworth is reporting from the...
By Karina Longworth • September 12, 2012 12:00 am

Film critic Karina Longworth is reporting from the Toronto International Film Festival this week.For maybe the first hour of Yellow…

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Editor’s note: Village Voice media film critic Karina Longworth is currently at
Editor’s note: Village Voice media film critic Karina...
By Karina Longworth • September 10, 2012 12:00 am

Editor’s note: Village Voice media film critic Karina Longworth is currently at the Toronto Film Festival, from where se’ll be…

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Lady Jaye enjoys a dip.
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye: Just...
By Karina Longworth • September 4, 2012 12:00 am

Marie Losier’s doc chronicles Psychic TV and Throbbing Gristle founder Genesis Breyer P-Orridge’s recent career and second marriage, both defined…

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Brugger heads upriver.
The Ambassador: A Danish Stunt Film With a...
By Karina Longworth • September 4, 2012 12:00 am

It’s hard to imagine an experimental Danish documentary siphoning off too much Best Actor attention. But make no mistake: In…

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Jones and Samberg can't commit to splitting.
Celeste and Jesse Forever: Rashida Jones Writes Herself...
By Karina Longworth • August 21, 2012 12:00 am

Newly separated, Celeste (Rashida Jones) is told by her un-flamboyant queer co-worker (Elijah Wood), “It’s time get your fuck on.”…

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Pattinson makes a pretty good magnate.
Cosmopolis: Don DeLillo Is Well-Served by Robert Pattinson
By Karina Longworth • August 21, 2012 12:00 am

Robert Pattinson’s casting as Eric Packer, a 28-year-old finance prodigy ensconced in a stretch limo on a 24-hour odyssey across…

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Julie Delpy Is Fighting Everything That's Wrong With Movies
Julie Delpy Is Fighting Everything That’s Wrong With...
By Karina Longworth • August 8, 2012 12:00 am

“My son is sick right now, covered in zits. It’s not contagious — I mean, it’s contagious, but don’t worry:…

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Galifianakis and Ferrell prepare to pontificate.
The Campaign: Zach Galifianakis vs. Will Ferrell
By Karina Longworth • August 7, 2012 12:00 am

The Campaign begins with an onscreen quote attributed to Ross Perot: “War has rules. Mud-wrestling has rules. Politics has no…

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Jackie Siegel and some of her kids before the fall.
The Queen of Versailles: How the 1 Percent...
By Karina Longworth • August 7, 2012 12:00 am

Vividly bringing to life the question Don DeLillo poses in Cosmopolis—whether self-denial is a social responsibility—Lauren Greenfield’s new documentary tracks…

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Unlike sisters Blanchard (left) and Sorvino.
Union Square: Mira Sorvino’s Welcome Return to the...
By Karina Longworth • August 7, 2012 12:00 am

Lucy (Mira Sorvino), a hot mess in a minidress and spike-heel boots, shows up in Manhattan, yappy little dog in…

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Photojournalist Maiwenn eventually lets her hair down.
Polisse: French Cops on the Verge of Mental...
By Karina Longworth • June 26, 2012 12:00 am

An episodic ensemble piece based on cases handled by Paris’ Child Protection Unit, Polisse is a mutant beast: Imagine an…

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Love off the map: Azabal and Foster.
Here: Ben Foster in an Armenian Romance
By Karina Longworth • June 19, 2012 12:00 am

Will (Ben Foster)—a lone-wolf American cartographer on contract to collect data on the ground to match to satellite maps in…

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