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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‘Dallas Buyers Club’ Review: Matthew McConaughey Is the Only Reason to See It — But That’s Enough
His performance and the character he plays are the only standouts in this AIDS-themed man-against-the-system drama
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‘99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film’ Review: Oh, the Cacophony!
A crazy-quilt of footage shot on everything from webcams to iPhones has all the right voices but needs some dissent
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‘Winnie Mandela’ Review: Jennifer Hudson Is No One-Hit Wonder
Hudson is carrying the film on her shoulders, and she proves herself up to the task
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‘Touchy Feely’ Review: This Masseuse Doesn’t Go Deep Enough
Rosemarie DeWitt’s massage therapist is the central — and least interesting — character in a disappointing ensemble piece
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‘Captain Phillips’ Review: Taut Suspense, Iffy Racial Politics, Unfussy Tom Hanks (Video)
Director Paul Greengrass’ portrayal here of a noble white officer suffering at the hands of insidious black pirates smacks of Rudyard Kipling
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‘Riddick’ Review: Wait, You Mean This Isn’t a Parody?
It’s generic bounty hunters versus Vin Diesel’s mumbling super-alien in this familiar and dull sci-fi adventure
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‘Salinger’ Review: A Compelling Portrait of a Literary Man of Mystery (Video)
There are gaps, but ‘Salinger’ offers just enough revelations for even casual fans of the author
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‘One Direction: This Is Us’ Review: An Infomercial as Amiable and Disposable as the Boy Band’s Songs (Video)
"Super Size Me's" Morgan Spurlock’s doc is less interested in pushing the music than in selling us these five guys who have become friends under the oddest circumstances
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‘Closed Circuit’ Review: Surveillance Cameras Everywhere, but Nothing Worth Watching
The story is meant to shock us, but in this Edward Snowden/Chelsea Manning era, does any government-sanctioned chicanery come as a real surprise?
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‘The Grandmaster’ Review: Sweeping, Gorgeous, Exciting – and Butchered – Taste of Kung Fu Legend Ip Man
Wong Kar-Wai’s gorgeous martial-arts biopic jumps from event to event like a very long “Previously on ‘Homeland’…”
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Ben Affleck as Batman: Hey, Bat-Fans, Calm the *%!& Down!
Commentary: Fans didn't want Daniel Craig as 007 or Joss Whedon for "The Avengers" — or Michael Keaton for 1989's Dark Knight, either
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‘You’re Next’ Review: A Tense Slasher With Both Wit and Twists
This chiller nods to the classics but keeps enough tricks up its sleeve to keep audiences quivering at the edge of their seats
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‘The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones’ Review: Part ‘Harry Potter,’ Part ‘Twilight,’ All Dull
You’d think a movie with werewolf bikers, mini-skirted demon hunters and gay warlocks would offer some excitement. You would be wrong.
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‘The World’s End’ Review: 12 Pints of Laughs, Heartbreak and Male Menopause (Video)
In this hilarious new Edgar Wright-Simon Pegg-Nick Frost collaboration, five old friends learn you can’t go home again when the apocalypse is nigh
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‘Ain’t Them Bodies Saints’ Review: Stunning Cinematography Overwhelms a Slight Story
Writer-director David Lowery’s gorgeous film boasts powerful performances, but gets stuck as the plot spins its wheels
