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 Smurfs 2’ Review: What’s With All the Clunky Adult Irony? These Are Just Smurfs!
If you love Smurfs, the movie has Smurfs; if you don’t love Smurfs … the movie has Smurfs.
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‘The Wolverine’ Review: Hugh Jackman’s Bad-News Mutant Returns to Fighting Form in Latest ‘X-Men’ (Video)
While not matching the “X-Men” series at its peak, this latest adventure is leaps and bounds better than “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”
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‘The To Do List’ Review: Take This Unfulfilling Sex Comedy Off Yours
Both virginities and comic opportunities are lost in this misfire of a coming-of-age movie starring "Parks and Recreation's" Aubrey Plaza
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‘R.I.P.D.’ Review: It’s Nearly Epic in Its Mediocrity
Ryan Reynolds battles walking corpses — and a dead script
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‘Girl Most Likely’ Review: Hey, Kristen Wiig, Put Your Bridesmaid’s Dress Back On
A top-tier cast and the makers of “American Splendor” can’t resuscitate this dead-on-arrival comedy
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‘Fruitvale Station’ Review: Compelling Character Study Captures the Life Behind the Tragic Death
Powerful film reminds us that every victim of a random shooting was, first and foremost, a person just living his or her life
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‘Grown Ups 2’ Review: See Adam Sandler, Chris Rock Chuckle at Their Own Moronic Jokes
The best that can be said for this who-asked-for-it sequel to the 2010 comedy is that Rob Schneider did not return
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‘Pacific Rim’ Review: There Be Monsters in Here Somewhere
Guillermo del Toro gives us giant robots versus giant monsters – and then barely lets us see them
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‘Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain’ Review: But First, This Commercial Announcement (Video)
The comedian captivates an SRO crowd at Madison Square Garden — but to get to that part, movie audiences are subjected to 15 minutes of self-promotion
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‘Despicable Me 2’ Review: Less Despicable, Less Funny
Fatherhood has made softened-up super-villain Gru even less interesting — and once again, we don't get enough of the minions
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‘The Lone Ranger’ Review: Hi-Yawn, Silver, Awaaaay!
Bloated action epic wants Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer to both deconstruct and revive the old legend, thus heading itself off at the pass
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‘Byzantium’ Review: A Bloody Mess from Neil Jordan
Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton commit to this vampire silliness, but the movie drowns in overblown histrionics
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‘I’m So Excited!’ Review: A Funny and Farcical Throwback From Pedro Almodóvar (Video)
Twenty-five years after "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown," the Spanish auteur hasn't lost his outrageous sense of humor
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‘The Heat’ Review: Buddy-Cops Get the Foul-Mouthed, Big-Laughs ‘Bridesmaids’ Treatment
After being the best thing about two terrible movies this year (“Identity Thief” and “The Hangover Part III”), Melissa McCarthy finally gets a vehicle that deserves her
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‘The Conjuring’ Review: No, Seriously, Do NOT Go in the Basement
James Wan's direction and a game cast make this chilling haunted-house tale a contemporary horror classic