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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‘A Summer’s Tale’ Review: Eric Rohmer’s Sun-Kissed Bonbon Finally Arrives in the U.S.
This charming 1996 comedy of romantic misunderstandings from the late New Wave master remains witty and observant two decades later
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‘Think Like a Man Too’ Review: A Little Comedy, a Little Romance, a Lot of Come-to-Vegas Advertising
With so much time spent plugging Sin City, the sequel barely has time for its dozen or so major characters
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‘They Came Together’ Review: Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Flattened by Ponderous Parody
“Wet Hot American Summer” director David Wain sends up rom-com clichés in a movie that’s so post-modern that it winds up post-funny
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‘Jersey Boys’ Review: Clint Eastwood’s Jukebox Musical Is Nice, Entertaining, Just Not All That Good (Video)
While the nostalgic film doesn’t drag, it also never answers the question, “Why spend 134 minutes on the Frankie Valli episode of ‘Behind the Music’?”
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‘Hellion’ Review: Aaron Paul Plays a Drunk Dad in a Familiar Tale of Childhood Strife
This indie drama, featuring Paul and Juliette Lewis, is well-acted and beautifully shot, but it feels like the 401st version of “The 400 Blows” to come out of Sundance
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‘Obvious Child’ Review: Jenny Slate Offers Up Choice Laughs
The only agenda of this scruffy and urbane comedy, about a young comic contemplating abortion, is to be true and funny
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‘We Are the Best!’ Review: A Pitch-Perfect Tale of Teen Girls and the Power of Punk
Everyone who’s ever felt like an outsider — or picked up an instrument without knowing how to play it — should check out this entertaining comedy from Lukas Moodysson (“Together”)
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‘Maleficent’ Review: Angelina Jolie Helps Flip the Script, ‘Wicked’- Style (Video)
The villain of “Sleeping Beauty” gets to be the hero in smart (but visually hideous) story that injects post-“Frozen” female empowerment into an old chestnut
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‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’ Review: Vulgarity Heads Off Absurdism at the Pass
Seth MacFarlane’s non sequitur gags about the awfulness of life on the frontier get the laughs, but they’re overcrowded by sophomoric sex and scatology jokes that miss the target with a loud splatter
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‘Edge of Tomorrow’ Review: Tom Cruise’s Groundhog Starship Butterfly Source Code Troopers Day Effect (Video)
It’s a familiar sci-fi mashup, but director Doug Liman knows how to find the fun and the thrills in this tale of an alien-fighting soldier who lives the same day over and over again
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‘Words and Pictures’ Review: Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche in an Academic War With No Winners
A contrived set-up and wild shifts in tone undercut interesting performances from two great actors
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‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ Review: Mutant Saga Crosses the Streams of Its Old-School and Newer Characters
Make sure you’re caught up on all things X if you want to keep track of what Wolverine’s doing in the past and how it might affect a dystopian, war-on-mutants future
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‘Godzilla’ Review: Or, in This Case, ‘Waiting for Godzilla’
The monster movie’s biggest star delivers when he’s on screen, but his appearances are way too few and far between
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‘God’s Pocket’ Review: Director John Slattery Wallows in Blue-Collar Clichés (Video)
The late Philip Seymour Hoffman leads a fine cast that drowns in the fetishized squalor of this steeltown bummer
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‘Palo Alto’ Review: James Franco’s Compassionate Look at a Teenage Wasteland
Gia Coppola (Francis’ granddaughter) makes her debut as writer-director
