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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‘Unfinished Song’ Review: Stamp and Redgrave Tune Up a Flat Melody
When this British movie isn't squeezing out tears by any means necessary, it tries to mine laughs out of cutesy seniors singing hip-hop
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‘World War Z’ Review: Humanity Under Attack – and That’s Just the Script (Video)
Big-budget zombie movie gets so lost in its global scale that it doesn't give us a flesh-and-blood hero who makes it all matter, despite Brad Pitt's best efforts
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‘The Bling Ring’ Review: All Dressed Up, Goes Nowhere
Sofia Coppola’s look at larcenous teen celebrity wannabes captures their splashy crime spree but remains as resolutely shallow as its protagonists
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‘Man of Steel’ Review: This Grimmer ‘Superman’ Might Not Soar, But It Flies
Zack Snyder and Christopher Nolan's take on Superman isn't perfect, but it's provocative enough to be a successful tentpole
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‘Monsters University’ Review: Wait, Didn’t We See All This in ‘The Internship’?
At least Pixar’s talent for gags and visual styling will get adult audiences through this very familiar prequel
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‘Dirty Wars’ Review: Good Story, but It’s Too Much Like an Infomercial for Journalist Jeremy Scahill
The on-camera ubiquity of Scahill turns a hard-hitting piece of reportage into the “Justin Bieber: Never Say Never” of investigative journalism
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‘Much Ado About Nothing’ Review: The Fault Lies in the Co-Star
Joss Whedon brings a puckish wit to this modern-dress Shakespeare, but a dire miscasting of one of the romantic leads crashes the whole venture
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‘This Is the End’ Review: Night of the Living Judd Apatow Ensemble (Video)
Seth Rogen and friends hilariously send themselves up as selfish, coddled celebrities unequipped to face the apocalypse
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‘Now You See Me’ Review: A Magic-Themed Heist Movie With Maybe Too Much Up Its Sleeve
Suspension of disbelief gets a workout as this caper starts pulling third-act twists out of its hat
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‘After Earth’ Review: Parents Just Don’t Understand
Will Smith needs to let his son Jaden figure out what it is he’s good at because, at the moment at least, acting isn’t it
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‘The Kings of Summer’ Review: A Giddy, Goofy Teenage Lark
A charming ensemble cast and offbeat sense of humor makes this “summer that changed everything” tale a winner
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‘Before Midnight’ Review: Joy and Pain, Long After Happily Ever After
Richard Linklater’s third peek into the love story of the couple played by Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke celebrates romance, compromise, disillusionment and the glory of conversation
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‘Epic’ Review: Moments of Delight Pep Up a Crushingly Familiar Story
This pre-school "Avatar" offers the occasional surprise, but even little kids will feel déjà vu from the stock characters and situations
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‘Fast & Furious 6’ Review: Bypasses Logic and Drives Straight to the Pleasure Center
All makers of loud, stupid action movies only wish their films delivered as much sheer sensation as this latest installment in the vroom-vroom saga
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‘Black Rock’ Review: Woman-Hunt Tale Whose Only Suspense Is Waiting for It to Get Better
You keep waiting for Katie Aselton’s Iraq vets vs. gal-pals thriller to reveal new layers, until it becomes clear there are none