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Articles by Karina Longworth
It's always good to see Maura back on the screen.
The Women on the Sixth Floor: Friendship Across...
By Karina Longworth • November 22, 2011 12:00 am

The pleasing sounds of Carmen Maura’s whispery Castilian lisp open this 1962-set film about the friendship between a Parisian captain…

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All is swell before Hansard and Irglova split.
The Swell Season: For Fans of the Band...
By Karina Longworth • November 8, 2011 12:00 am

This tour doc—shot in moody, close-up-heavy black-and-white—traces a few years on the road with Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, real-life…

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The patient (Anaya) has her revenge.
The Skin I Live In: Pedro Almodovar Mixes...
By Karina Longworth • November 1, 2011 12:00 am

The mad-scientist tale has remained more or less fixed since the beginning of sound cinema: From Dr. Frankenstein’s claim to…

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Hough (center) and Wormald (white T-shirt) can't fight this feelin'.
Footloose: Not as Terrible as It Should Be
By Karina Longworth • October 11, 2011 12:00 am

Starring dancer Kenny Wormald and directed by Craig Brewer, Footloose is an extraordinarily faithful remake, recycling four songs from Herbert…

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The salesman (Gosling) and his product (Clooney).
The Ides of March: Ryan Gosling and George...
By Karina Longworth • October 4, 2011 12:00 am

George Clooney’s fourth directorial effort is a loose adaptation of Farragut North, a 2008 behind-the-political-campaign play by Beau Willimon, who…

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Broomfield and his cardboard quarry.
Sarah Palin: You Betcha!: The (Non-) Candidate Flees...
By Karina Longworth • October 4, 2011 12:00 am

This documentary represents Nick Broomfield’s attempt to, as he puts it, “find out about the real Sarah from the people…

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Kate Winslet as one of the fearless virus hunters.
Contagion: Steven Soderbergh’s All-Star Plague Movie
By Karina Longworth • September 6, 2011 12:00 am

Contagion opens on day two of a global viral epidemic. Gwyneth Paltrow plays Beth, an American employee for a multinational…

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Hathaway and Sturgess as the date-driven duo.
One Day: Anne Hathaway Ventures Back to the...
By Karina Longworth • August 16, 2011 12:00 am

Emma (Anne Hathaway) is a too-serious would-be writer in coke-bottle glasses and combat boots. She’s nursing a crush on Dexter…

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Stone as tyro journalist.
The Help: Emma Stone Lives Up to Her...
By Karina Longworth • August 9, 2011 12:00 am

A fast-talking, eye-rolling snarler, Emma Stone wears a truly terrible perm to play the allegedly dowdy Skeeter, a recent college…

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Dude, where's my libido? Bateman (left) and Reynolds.
The Change-Up: Jason Bateman Shoulda Swapped Movies Instead
By Karina Longworth • August 2, 2011 12:00 am

A uniquely Freudian entry in the body-switching-comedy canon, The Change-Up stars Jason Bateman as anal-retentive lawyer/family man Dave and Ryan…

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Earth girls are easy? Actress/writer Marling.
Another Earth: Two Planets, More Troubles
By Karina Longworth • August 2, 2011 12:00 am

Brit Marling, the lithe, stunning co-writer and star of Mike Cahill’s Another Earth, plays Rhoda, a 17-year-old who is celebrating…

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The playa (Gosling, left) and his pupil (Carell).
Crazy, Stupid, Love: Steve Carell as Lothario
By Karina Longworth • July 26, 2011 12:00 am

After Emily (Julianne Moore) tells Cal (Steve Carell), her husband of 20-plus years, that she wants a divorce, she confesses…

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One of Norton's Depression-era survivors.
Redland: Grim Survival in the Great Depression
By Karina Longworth • July 19, 2011 12:00 am

This dark, hallucinatory fable begins and climaxes with two of the most audacious sex-meets-death set-pieces in recent indie-movie memory. What’s…

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Story-within-a-story BFFs Li (left) and Jun.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Decent...
By Karina Longworth • July 19, 2011 12:00 am

Nina (Li Bingbing) is a Shanghai career girl who drops plans to move to New York when she learns her…

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Evans is pumped up for the inevitable sequels.
Captain America: Will These Marvel Spinoffs Never Cease?
By Karina Longworth • July 19, 2011 12:00 am

Created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for Marvel Comics in 1941, Captain America was among the first American comic…

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Jennifer Aniston as one of said horrible bosses.
Horrible Bosses: Oh, Jason Bateman, We’ll Almost Forgive...
By Karina Longworth • July 5, 2011 12:00 am

Director Seth Gordon’s ensemble comedy is about how our tough economic times have destroyed white-collar, white-male masculinity. Three high-school friends—weakling…

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Hot for teacher? Diaz as educator.
Bad Teacher: Cameron Diaz Wishes She’d Done Bridesmaids...
By Karina Longworth • June 21, 2011 12:00 am

Bad Teacher focuses on a school year in the life of Elizabeth (Cameron Diaz), an aging party girl, once destined…

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Welcome to Coco's pity party!
Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop: The TV Host Manages...
By Karina Longworth • June 21, 2011 12:00 am

“I am angry,” Conan O’Brien admits in Rodman Flender’s tour doc. “I’m trying not to be . . . but sometimes I’m so mad…

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Wilson's dreamer in present Paris (with Léa Seydoux).
Midnight in Paris: Woody Allen in Warmly Nostalgic...
By Karina Longworth • May 31, 2011 12:00 am

A deceptively light time-travel romance, Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris uses fairy-tale devices as a way to get to the…

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Saint Laurent and his mannequins--er, sorry, women.
L’Amour Fou: Remembering Yves Saint-Laurent
By Karina Longworth • May 24, 2011 12:00 am

Pierre Thoretton’s documentary opens with unbroken footage from designer Yves Saint-Laurent’s 2002 speech announcing his retirement from fashion, after 40-plus…

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