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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All 5 Christopher Guest Mockumentary Movies Ranked, From Worst to Best (Photos)
How does the new Netflix comedy “Mascots” compare to classics like “Waiting for Guffman”?
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‘Kevin Hart: What Now?’ Review: Comedian Connects, Even in the Biggest of Big Rooms
Now the jokes are about home-ownership and private school, but Hart hits his targets, even when playing a record-breaking stadium crowd
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‘The Accountant’ Review: Ben Affleck Excels at Math and Murder in Oddball Origin Story
The title character is a ninja and a crack shot and a whiz at tax deductions in a thriller that understands how silly it is
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‘Shin Godzilla’ Review: New Reboot Mixes Giant Monsters and Political Satire
Godzilla rises again, only to face government bureaucracy, U.N. meddling and some renegade scientists who might actually fix the situation
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‘Middle School’ Review: Pre-Teen Comedy-Drama Succeeds at Neither
Both the laughs and the tear-jerking fall flat in this herky-jerky adaptation of James Patterson’s junior-high novels
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‘Blue Jay’ Review: Sarah Paulson and Mark Duplass Shine in Actors’ Showcase
The Duplass-scripted dramedy breaks little new ground, but watching these performers flex their talents justifies the effort
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’13th’ NYFF Review: Ava DuVernay Connects the Dots From Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter
This harrowing Netflix documentary examines how treating black American males as criminals has perpetuated systematic oppression
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‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ Review: Tim Burton Gums Up the Works
What should have been a charming mix of the bizarre and the charming gets weighted down with clumsy plotting and exposition
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Curtis Hanson Remembered: A Filmmaker Who Was Also a Movie Lover
Writer-director’s love for old Hollywood went way beyond his brilliant screen version of James Ellroy’s “L.A. Confidential”
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‘Storks’ Review: Andy Samberg Delivers Laughs and Babies in Charming Animated Adventure
Writer and co-director Nicholas Stoller’s script achieves hilarity and poignancy by following storytelling rules — and breaking them, too
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‘The Oliver Stone Experience’: Matt Zoller Seitz Gets Deep With the Auteur
“He’s a very conflicted guy, and there are a lot of areas where he’s contradictory, conflicted,” author tells TheWrap about the Oscar-winning filmmaker
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‘Blair Witch’ Review: Generation Selfie Gets Lost in the Woods
The tech may be updated, but this remake of the 1999 horror hit follows an all-too-familiar roadmap (now with GPS!)
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‘Snowden’ Toronto Review: Oliver Stone Plays It Aesthetically Safe
Toronto 2016: Stone names the right (and left) names in this biopic of the whistle-blower, but his storytelling style lacks punch
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‘London Road’ Review: True-Crime Musical Overstays Its Welcome
Olivia Colman stars (and Tom Hardy has a cameo) in this movie that sets eyewitness transcripts to music, a clever idea that can’t sustain an entire feature
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‘The Young Pope’ Venice Review: Jude Law Does the Vatican Rag
The first two chapters of the Paolo Sorrentino miniseries seem uncomfortably perched between satire and nighttime soap
