Alonso Duralde, TheWrap’s film reviews editor, has written about film for Movieline, Salon, Village Voice and MSNBC.com. He also co-hosts the “Linoleum Knife,” “Maximum Film!” and “Breakfast All Day” podcasts. A member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Society of Film Critics, Duralde has discussed cinema on TCM, CNN and ABC, among others, and was a regular contributor to FilmStruck. He is the author of “Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas” and “101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men” and the co-author of “I’ll Be Home for Christmas Movies”; his history of queer Hollywood will be published by TCM/Running Press in 2024.
Experience:
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‘Assassination Nation’ Review: Verve Carries the Day in Scattershot Satire
This colorful mash-up of classic cinema tropes goes in a million directions, but sheer chutzpah gets it across the finish line
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‘Jane Fonda in Five Acts’ Film Review: Doc Explores the Many Lives of the Actress-Activist
Like Fonda’s 2005 memoir, the film shows a woman bouncing back brilliantly from tragedy and regret
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‘The Sisters Brothers’ Film Review: John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix Saddle Up for an Extraordinary Western
Venice 2018: Jake Gyllenhaal and Riz Ahmed co-star in this funny, tragic, intimate epic from Jacques Audiard (“A Prophet”)
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‘The Children Act’ Film Review: Emma Thompson Grapples With Conscience in Sluggish Legal Drama
Ian McEwan adapts his own novel about a conflicted judge, but for all the beating gavels, there’s no pulse here
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‘Lizzie’ Film Review: Chloë Sevigny Makes the Infamous Killer a Rebel With a Cause
Sevigny and Kristen Stewart are homicidal lovers in a haunting tale of love and slaughter
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Burt Reynolds Appreciation: A Classic Movie Star With a Modern Sense of Humor
He made comedy and drama look equally easy, and he created a new kind of sex symbol
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‘Support the Girls’ Film Review: Regina Hall Uplifts Observant Workplace Comedy
All the world’s a Hooters in this sharp look at sisterhood from writer-director Andrew Bujalski
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‘The Happytime Murders’ Film Review: Melissa McCarthy Valiantly Plays Along in One-Joke Comedy
Brian Henson’s puppets-gone-bad gimmick takes this labored detective spoof only so far before running out of stuffing
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‘The Meg’ Film Review: Jason Statham Swims With Really, Really Big Sharks
This monster-shark movie delivers a handful of decent PG-13 scares, but the characters are just chum
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‘Skate Kitchen’ Film Review: Female Skateboarders Find Freedom on 4 Wheels
The narrative debut from Crystal Moselle (“The Wolfpack”) shows talented girls supporting each other’s right to grind
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‘Christopher Robin’ Film Review: A.A. Milne’s Young Hero Has a Hundred-Acre Mid-Life Crisis
This semi-live-action “Winnie the Pooh” sequel is slow and charmless, fit for neither children nor adults
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‘Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood’ Review: Sex Abounded in Hollywood’s Golden Age
TIFF 2017: The director of “Valentino: The Last Emperor” profiles the studio system’s legendary procurer
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‘Teen Titans GO! to the Movies’ Film Review: TV Adaptation Sticks It to Big-Screen Superheroes
A tireless barrage of gags and inside-comics references makes this Cartoon Network feature a silly treat
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‘Blindspotting’ Film Review: Ambitious Oakland Tale Suffers From Too Many Ideas
Carlos López Estrada’s feature directorial debut gets overwhelmed by abrupt shifts in tone and an excess of hot-button issues
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‘Hotel Transylvania 3’ Film Review: Adam Sandler’s Groovy Ghoulies Take a Wacky Vacation
This “Summer Vacation” reminds us that these cartoons are Sandler’s most satisfying franchise
