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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‘In Secret’ Review: Elizabeth Olsen Stars in the ‘John Carter’ of Homicidal Romances
Émile Zola’s “Thérèse Raquin” was a shocker in 1867, but its story elements have been borrowed so many times that they’re threadbare in this passionless remake
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‘Winter’s Tale’ Review: A Love Story With Lots of Colin Farrell and Very Little Sense
This fantasy-romance strives for magical realism, but the logical conundrums and plot conveniences get in the way of the hearts and flowers
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‘RoboCop’ Review: Not a Disastrous Remake, But Still Flat-Footed (Video)
It’s not a dark satire, it’s not ultra-violent, but it’s not much else instead except a competent but unexciting sci-fi action movie with a few good ideas
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‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ Review: Wes Anderson’s Latest an Exhilarating — and Ephemeral — Sugar Rush (Video)
This action-comedy-romance-nostalgia piece is a movie lover’s head-spinning delight, and two hours later you’ll barely remember it
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‘Cavemen’ Review: A Rom-Com That’s a Real Knuckle-Dragger
Despite Skylar Astin and Camilla Belle’s charm, this no-brainer makes “That Awkward Moment” seem like Mamet
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‘The Lego Movie’ Review: Funny Pieces Don’t Click With Heavy-Handed Message (Video)
This is an animated comedy-adventure with a moral — and the movie will grind to a halt to deliver it, even when it spoils the fun
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Remembering Philip Seymour Hoffman: A Fearless Artist, Taken Too Soon
Hoffman devoured the souls of his characters, never afraid to let audiences love or hate or pity them, so long as we were intrigued
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‘At Middleton’ Review: Vera Farmiga and Andy Garcia Are Way Too Cool for This School
Engaging lead performances can only do so much for a flimsy tale that coasts on charm until it falls apart
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‘The Monuments Men’ Review: George Clooney’s Retro WWII Adventure Could Use Old-Fashioned Rewrite
An all-star cast nails the period flavor, but the storytelling is all over the place as this true story about rescuing art from the Nazis goes from breezy to lumbering
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‘That Awkward Moment’ Review: All the Man-Child Rom-Com Clichés, Plus a Nearly-Nude Zac Efron
While it strains for R-rated raunch, this exceedingly mild comedy just rehashes all the men-are-like-this, women-are-like-that observations from “About Last Night” and “When Harry Met Sally…”
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‘Stranger by the Lake’ Review: Summer Lovin’ with a Murderer
This sexy gay French import offers the kind of terse suspense Hitchcock and Polanski would appreciate
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‘I, Frankenstein’ Review: Aaron Eckhart Lumbers Through Stitched-Together ‘Underworld’ Knock-Off
This dreary horror-superhero hybrid about a war between angels and demons is as soulless as the title character
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‘Gimme Shelter’ Review: Vanessa Hudgens Homeless Drama Also Charmless and Witless
Heavy-handed sermonizing, sloppy writing and overacting render this message movie dull, with flashes of unintentional hilarity
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Alonso Duralde’s Sundance Reviews: ‘Skeleton Twins’ Satisfies, ‘Infinitely Polar Bear’ Overdoses on Cute
The Wrap’s film critic sums up his final Park City screenings, from dysfunctional family dramedy to hard-hitting docs about powerful pedophiles
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‘Boyhood’ Review From Sundance: In Richard Linklater’s Latest, the Child is the Father of the Man
The cast ages in real time in this extraordinary epic of the ordinary, a stirring look at a family’s perseverance through the day-to-day business of getting older and growing up
