Email Author KARINA LONGWORTH
More than ever, boiling this concluding year down to the 10 "best" movies feels both arbitrary and reductive. Ideally, I'd have 25 unnumbered... More >>
Quentin Tarantino has been Googling himself, and it's starting to become a problem. The filmmaker, whose eighth feature, Django... More >>
An adaptation of George V. Higgins' 1974 novel, Cogan's Trade, Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly anatomizes a... More >>
Early in Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock (played by Sir Anthony Hopkins with a sack of fat connecting chin to neck) walks the red carpet... More >>
Silver Linings Playbook, which stars Bradley Cooper as a manic-depressive man-child attempting to get his life back together after a... More >>
If Hollywood's rut du jour is the origin story as bid for franchise immortality, you can't say that Skyfall—the 23rd "official"... More >>
Found-footage eco-horror cheapie The Bay—in which a previously harmless waterborne parasite mutates into an unstoppable... More >>
Sean Baker's Starlet stars Dree Hemingway (Ernest's great-granddaughter) as Jane, a 21-year-old "girl next door" porn performer whose... More >>
Gossip Girl and The O.C., the two teen TV shows created in the past decade by 36-year-old Josh Schwartz, are sly bait and... More >>
The Loneliest Planet begins with close-up trained on the body of a beautiful woman, naked and trembling. It's not what it... More >>
When Ruby (played by the stunning Emayatzy Corinealdi) tells the new man in her life she likes "indie" movies, it's both a declaration of... More >>
Perhaps more than any other male American star of his generation, Ben Affleck understands the narrative advantage of having Hollywood on your... More >>
A critic's report from a film festival such as the one in Toronto, at which something like 300 features were unveiled from Sept. 6 through 16,... More >>
When it comes to cost-cutting, downsizing, and philosophical and practical compromise, how low is it possible to go before there's nothing left... More >>
There's something startlingly noncommittal about many of the initial reviews of The Master that leaked out following the impromptu... More >>
The blitzkrieg of award season is right around the corner, and with it, we can expect an onslaught of stunt performances, designed to wow... More >>
It's pretty Pollyanna-ish to complain when companies that are in the business of making money on movies make certain movies solely to make... More >>
Boyishly lean, with a brooding angularity that suggests both high maintenance and nefarious vacancy, Robert Pattinson has managed to fill the... More >>
Like antidepressants, artificial sugars, Botox and other miracle inventions of the past century, corporate culture became an omnipresent fact... More >>
"My son is sick right now, covered in zits. It's not contagious—I mean, it's contagious, but don't worry: Grown-ups don't catch it. It's... More >>
The Campaign begins with an onscreen quote attributed to Ross Perot: "War has rules. Mud-wrestling has rules. Politics has no... More >>
In Celeste and Jesse Forever, the titular, newly separated female protagonist's unflamboyant queer co-worker (Elijah Wood) tells her,... More >>
Chinese artist, activist and antagonist Ai Weiwei became a worldwide cause celebre last April when he was arrested by authorities at the... More >>
"I don't want to give you lessons in self-denial and social responsibility," an art dealer tells her billionaire-boy client in Don DeLillo's... More >>
"When we started the band, suddenly we were, like, New York famous. We could get into anyplace, but you know—I was never recognized on a... More >>
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