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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‘Run All Night’ Review: Liam Neeson and Ed Harris Face Off in a Pulpy Ticking-Clock Thriller
A boozy, haunted hitman has just one night to protect his son from a crime boss’ wrath in Neeson’s latest entertainingly trashy team-up with director Jaume Collet-Serra
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‘The Gunman’ Review: Sean Penn Would Like to Be Your New Middle-Aged Action Star
Oscar winner aims at both social commentary and post-“Taken” viability in this predictable thriller
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‘Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ Review: Richard Gere Checks In, Plot and Wit Check Out (Video)
Maggie Smith and Judi Dench can do only so much with the sitcom-level complications on display in this sequel
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‘Unfinished Business’ Review: Vince Vaughn and Company Find Some Laughs But Never Close the Deal
It’s not impossible to mix sentimentality, raunch, corporate gamesmanship and the G-8 Summit in a comedy, but this one doesn’t pull it off
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‘Queen and Country’ Review: John Boorman Returns to the Autobiographical Well 30 Years After ‘Hope and Glory’ (Video)
The writer-director’s remembrances of life as a young man in the army fall short of his previous memoir’s greatness, but are charming nonetheless
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‘Wild Tales’ Review: Oscar-Nominated Anthology Spins Darkly Hilarious Vignettes
Writer-director Damián Szifrón displays the storytelling skills of the great short-form yarn-spinners in this wickedly funny anthology film
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‘Hot Tub Time Machine 2’ Review: Adam Scott Hops in for a Second Uninspired Soak
Like its predecessor, this sequel is only half right when it thinks it’s being stupid-smart
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‘Worst Idea of All Time’: Two Comics Watch Same Bad Adam Sandler Movie Every Week for a Year (Video)
Comedians Tim Batt and Guy Montgomery watch “Grown Ups 2” over and over, making listeners laugh as they admit slipping into insanity on TheWrap’s latest “Drinking With the Stars”
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‘What We Do in the Shadows’ Review: Horror-Comedy Breathes Life Into Vampire Movies and Mockumentaries
Jemaine Clement (“Flight of the Conchords”) co-directs and co-stars in this droll look at the day-to-day life of the undead
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‘Jupiter Ascending’ Review: The Wachowskis Craft a Sci-Fi Saga That’s Breathlessly Exciting But Utterly Ridiculous
Mila Kunis is a toilet-scrubbing Queen of Outer Space and Channing Tatum her part-pooch paramour in a silly adventure that’s fun from start to finish
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‘The SpongeBob Movie’ Review: Swims in Silliness, Even on Dry Land
This second big-screen outing for the cable cartoon favorite maintains a giddy, non-stop barrage of jokes that will tickle kids and adults
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‘The Loft’ Review: James Marsden and Wentworth Miller Thriller as Exciting as an Escrow Hearing
Eric Stonestreet, Karl Urban and Matthias Schoenaerts round out an unconvincing quintet of friends who discover a murdered woman in their shared adultery nest
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Sundance Reviews: Sex, Masculinity Are Complicated in Jason Sudeikis, Alison Brie, James Franco Movies
The directors of “Bachelorette” and “Miss Representation” return to Sundance with, respectively, a brilliantly bawdy comedy and a vital look at how our culture raises its men
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Sundance Reviews: Literary Lions, Troubled Teens, Lithuanian Lesbians
A first sampling of Sundance offerings reveals illuminating documentaries and compelling, if not perfect, narratives
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‘Mommy’ Review: Xavier Dolan’s Latest Wavers Between Powerful and Exasperating
It’s hard not to empathize with this troubled teen and his equally mercurial mother, but the writer-director undercuts his characters by wallowing in classist squalor
