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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‘The Raid 2’ Review: Imagine an Exhilaratingly Hyper-Violent MGM Musical
Multi-hyphenate Gareth Evans returns to Indonesia for another insanely graphic fight movie that keeps upping its own glorious ante
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‘Nymphomaniac, Vols. I & II’ Review: Lars von Trier’s Sexual Tragicomedy Starts Strong, Loses Potency
Charlotte Gainsbourg plays a Scheherazade of the genitals, recounting the history of her sexual obsessions to a captivated Stellan Skarsgård
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‘Noah’ Review: Darren Aronofsky’s Biblical ‘Waterworld’ Mostly Runs Aground (Video)
Russell Crowe plays a zero-population-growth Noah in a movie stuck between being a straightforward Biblical epic and a full-tilt-boogie arthouse film
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‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Review: Superheroic, Yes, But Smart and Subversive Too (Video)
A hero who’s literally wrapped in the flag must come to terms with the Age of the NSA, in a film that asks some big questions in between stirring fight scenes
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‘Divergent’ Review: A Little ‘Hunger Games,’ a Little ‘Harry Potter,’ a Lot of Dull (Video)
This Frankenstein of stitched-together YA parts never stands on its own two feet, even with Kate Winslet giving full-on Faye Dunaway
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‘The Single Moms Club’ Review: Moviegoers — and Moms Especially — Deserve Better
Only Tyler Perry can make a movie that’s laughably sexist and racist and still completely dull
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‘Muppets Most Wanted’ Review: Caper Sequel Proves Second Verse Can Be as Good as the First
Self-aware jokes, absurdist plot twists — and who else would put Danny Trejo and Ray Liotta in musical numbers?
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‘Need for Speed’ Review: Aaron Paul Can’t Get This Vehicle Off the Lot
The miscasting of the “Breaking Bad” star is just one of the many problems of this aggressively-idiotic video game adaptation
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‘Veronica Mars’ Ultimate Review: TheWrap’s Movie Critic and Senior TV Writer’s Dual Takes (Video)
Alonso Duralde and Jethro Nededog give their takes on big-screen continuation of the canceled series starring Kristin Bell
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‘Ernest & Celestine’ Review: Oscar Got It Right, Nominating This Animated Delight
This French animated import (now featuring an English-language cast led by Forest Whitaker) mixes wit, warmth and watercolor to spin a charming tale for all ages
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‘Non-Stop’ Review: Liam Neeson Kicks Ass on a Plane Full of Red Herrings (Video)
In this cheesy but diabolically-entertaining thriller, an air marshal struggles to prove he’s not a terrorist — at 20,000 feet
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‘The Face of Love’ Review: Annette Bening in a Design Catalog That Overwhelms Its Characters
This tale of a grieving, privileged widow gets gummed up in plot mechanics and excessive design porn
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Harold Ramis Remembered: The Original Revenge of the Nerd
As Dustin Hoffman and Al Pacino did for leading men, Harold Ramis’ comedies championed a new kind of underdog hero
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‘Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me’ Review: This Showbiz Spitfire Is Very Much Still Here
The larger-than-life Broadway (and TV and film) legend bursts off the screen in this loving but uncompromising documentary
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‘Pompeii’ Review: It’s Basically ‘Titanic’ With Lava — and Without Compelling Leads (Video)
Kit Harington and Emily Browning have about one facial expression between them as star-crossed lovers in this empty epic
