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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‘Jurassic World’ Review: Chris Pratt’s Character, Like the Screenplay, Feels as Lab-Generated as the Dinos
The nonsensical story is bad enough without depriving Pratt of his charm and good humor in a generic, square-jawed leading-man role
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‘Insidious: Chapter 3’ Review – Lin Shaye Shines as the Original Female Ghostbuster
The scares are OK in this third movie, but the veteran character actress makes the most of a meaty role and lots of screen time
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‘Entourage’ Review: Jeremy Piven and the Boys Are Back, and They’re Obnoxious
If you’ve never seen the long-gone HBO series, you may wonder why you’re supposed to care about any of these entitled Hollywood jerks
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‘Gemma Bovery’ Review: Literary Comedy Puts a Feminist Spin on an Old Classic
Starring in a second adaptation of a graphic novel by Posy Simmonds, Gemma Arterton cuts Flaubert’s heroine a little slack
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‘Aloha’ Review: Bradley Cooper and Emma Stone Navigate Choppy Romantic Waters in Contrived Script
The characters in Cameron Crowe’s latest film are sketchy at best, and the dialogue that comes out of their mouths never rings true
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‘San Andreas’ Review: Dwayne Johnson Does His Best Charlton Heston as California Quakes
One can only imagine what disaster-meister Irwin Allen might have done with 21st century CGI effects, but this destruction saga gives us a pretty good idea
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‘When Marnie Was There’ Review: Studio Ghibli’s Latest Looks Great, But the Story Falls Short
This adaptation of a British novel boasts the voices of Hailee Steinfeld and Kiernan Shipka and the lush visuals you’d expect — but the narrative feels wobbly
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‘Poltergeist’ Review: Sam Rockwell Leads a Talented Cast Busted by Retread Ghosts
This remake pales next to the 1982 original, of course, but also in comparison to movies like “The Conjuring” and “Paranormal Activity,” which already stripped the Tobe Hooper classic for parts
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‘Slow West’ Review: Michael Fassbender Rides the Range Well in This Understated Western
Kodi Smit-McPhee co-stars as the tenderest of tenderfoots in this quiet and sometimes droll oater that simultaneously mythologizes and de-mythologizes the American West
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‘Pitch Perfect 2’ Review: Anna Kendrick and Company Make the Second Verse Almost as Good as the First
This tuneful, entertaining sequel almost makes you forget that it’s pretty much the same joke, told twice
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Cannes 2015: Wrap Critic Alonso Duralde Previews This Year’s Auteur Battle on the Croisette
Indie stalwarts Todd Haynes and Gus Van Sant will vie against Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Paolo Sorrentino and Denis Villeneuve for top honors
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‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Review: Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron Rev Up This Post-Apocalyptic Return Trip
Three decades away from the series hasn’t diminished writer-director George Miller’s ability to craft an intense, breathless opera of violence and vehicular mayhem
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‘Welcome to Me’ Review: Kristen Wiig Turns Mental Illness into Trainwreck TV in Uneven Comedy
This satire of media-age narcissism vacillates between biting humor and cuddly understanding without successfully nailing either tone
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‘Iris’ Review: Albert Maysles’ Penultimate Film Focuses on a Style Icon
This portrait of legendary interior designer and fashionista Iris Apfel feels less like “Grey Gardens” and more like recent docs celebrating Joan Rivers and Elaine Stritch
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‘Far From the Madding Crowd’ Review: Carey Mulligan Gets Swept Along in a CliffsNotes Version of Thomas Hardy
This new adaptation races from incident to incident, with no time left over for breathing, much less character development
