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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‘Walk of Shame’ Review: Elizabeth Banks Is the Only Bright Spot in This Warmed-Over ‘After Hours’
The actress is game, and some moments land, but this farce is frequently forced and overly frenetic
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‘Million Dollar Arm’ Review: Jon Hamm Gets a Walk to First in Sentimental Underdog Tale
This thoroughly predictable baseball drama wears you down like an adorable dog demanding to be scratched
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‘Locke’ Review: Tom Hardy Captivates in This One-Man Road Trip
The British actor’s tour de force performance anchors this daring, riveting drama that takes place entirely inside a vehicle driving down the highway at night
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‘The Other Woman’ Review: Leslie Mann, Cameron Diaz’s Performances Overshadowed by Schizo Script (Video)
Nick Cassavetes’ comedy of revenge can’t decide if it wants to be stylish, witty, bawdy, gross or silly, so it tries them all at one point or another
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‘A Haunted House 2’ Review: Less Terrible, Still Terrible
Leaden sequel might offer one or two more laughs than its misbegotten predecessor, but it’s still a lazy and slapdash horror spoof
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‘Bears’ Review: A Year in the Life, From Hibernation to Salmon Fishing and Back Again
In this sweet-natured Disney nature film narrated by John C. Reilly, the title characters really do go over the mountain to see what they can see (and eat)
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‘Transcendence’ Review: Johnny Depp Is a Ghost in the Machine in This Bug-Riddled Techno-Thriller (Video)
You can feel this movie’s attempts at Big Ideas about technology get weighed down by a dopey, nonsensical plot
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‘Rio 2’ Review: A Zippy Musical Trapped Inside a Tedious Kiddie Movie
When the fine feathered (and amphibian) cast sings and dances, you almost forget what a bore the rest of this sequel is
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‘Joe’ Review: Nicolas Cage Can Still Act, When Asked To
Director David Gordon Green builds a fascinating world with rich characters, but the plot gets in the way of the film’s subtler charms
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‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ Review: Tilda Swinton and Jim Jarmusch Revive the Moribund Vampire Genre (Video)
Undead and louche, these Eurotrashy vamps bring wit and poignancy to a tale you thought you were sick of hearing
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Mickey Rooney Death: Alonso Duralde Looks Back at the Hollywood Legend’s Life and Career
The indefatigable performer survived the Depression, the end of the studio system and the dawn of television in a life that was uniquely 20th century
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‘Under the Skin’ Review: A Is for ‘Alien’ and ‘Arthouse’ in This Oblique Scarlett Johansson Puzzler
The director of “Birth” and “Sexy Beast” returns after a decade-long absence with an enigmatic film that will entrance some and baffle many
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‘Alan Partridge’ Review: Steve Coogan’s Hilarious Creation Remains Vain, Even at Gunpoint
In this pungently funny media satire, a has-been sees a hostage crisis as a way to get back on television
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‘Afflicted’ Review: Clever, But Not Enough to Overcome Two Tired Horror Sub-Genres
It’s a better first-person mock-documentary thriller than most, but it’s nonetheless a first-person mock-doc thriller — and something else you’re probably sick of, but to reveal that would be telling too much
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‘Sabotage’ Review: Schwarzenegger Came Back to Hollywood for This?
Without Ah-nuld’s name attached, this noisy, stupid and semi-incoherent blood bath would go directly to DVD without passing Go or collecting $200
