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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‘Frances Ha’ Review: A Lovable Loser, Neither Coddled Nor Punished
The affection that co-writers Greta Gerwig (who stars) and Noah Baumbach (who directs) have for the title character is infectious
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‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Review: Thrilling Sequel Balances Fun with a Post-9/11 Sensibility
If you weren’t convinced that the imagery and politics of terrorism have been fully ingrained in action movies, this new “Trek” will be the tipping point
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‘Venus and Serena’ Review: More Love Than Faults in This Portrait of the Tennis Legends
Filmmakers Maiken Baird and Michelle Major are less interested in digging deep than they are in celebrating the sisters’ achievements and cultural impact — which is just fine
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‘Peeples’ Review: Funny, But You’ve Already Met These Parents
Still, even though it's rote and by-the-numbers, a Fokker-free "Peeples" made me laugh
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‘The Great Gatsby’ Review: How Many Flappers Make a Flop?
Baz Luhrmann sucks the life out of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s immortal novel and replaces it with empty filigree and overbearing style
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‘Something in the Air’ Review: You Might Fool the Children of the Revolution
Olivier Assayas explores the political passion of French teenagers coming of age three years after the May 1968 demonstrations
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‘Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s’ Review: Glitzy Doc Gives Label Names the Floor Space
Director Matthew Miele focuses on fashionistas in portrait of famed New York department store
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‘Iron Man 3’ Review: Supercharged Fun – Just Take Off Your Thinking Cap
Robert Downey Jr. makes the witty banter and explosive action zing — just don't worry too much about the convoluted plot
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‘The Big Wedding’ Review: Ho-Hum Ceremony With a Lively All-Star Guest List
This nuptial farce is the kind of film best enjoyed while on the couch, zonked out on cold medicine, secure in the knowledge that it won’t make you any sicker
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‘At Any Price’ Review: Light on Corn But Still Heavy on Fertilizer
Dennis Quaid/Zac Efron farm movie feels like a series of note cards (“father-son conflict,” “dad’s mistress hits on son”) that never weave together to make a gripping plot
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‘Mud’ Review: Lovely Coming-of-Age Tale Zigs Where Zagging Would Suffice
Matthew McConaughey continues his streak of interesting anti-heroes, playing a fugitive who committed murder in the name of love
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‘Reluctant Fundamentalist’ Review: Missed Opportunity to Weigh In on Anti-Muslim Discrimination
This story of an America-loving Pakistani radicalized by post-9/11 racism couldn’t be more zeitgeist-y, but the film is an overblown slog
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How ‘The Iceman’ and a Facebook Poke Closed the Circle for a Mass Killer’s Family
And why director Ariel Vroman was willing to put the film on hold to get "Boardwalk Empire's" Michael Shannon to play the allegedmurderer of up to 250 people between 1948 and 1986
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‘In the House’ Review: Darkly Funny, the Best Teacher-Student Movie Since ‘Election’
A young scribe and his mentor cross the line in pursuit of the story they want to tell
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‘Oblivion’ Review: Tom Cruise Meets ‘Tron,’ ‘Wall-E,’ ‘The Matrix’ …
While a case could be made that the warmed-over “Oblivion” will make the boldest anti-drones statement of any fictional film this year, it’s a chilly movie that never draws you in
