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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‘Paranormal Activity 4’ Review: Found-Footage Fright Franchise Keeps Chugging Along
There are a half-dozen decent scares in this new sequel, but boy do they make you wait to get to them
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‘The Sessions’ Review: Sex-Surrogate Story Works Better in Bed Than in Church
The intimate scenes between John Hawkes and Helen Hunt make the creaky comedy bits with a priestly William H. Macy worth enduring
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‘Alex Cross’ Review: Stop, Or Madea Will Shoot
For James Patterson’s best-selling cop-shrink to become a new, rebooted action franchise, someone more dynamic than Tyler Perry needs to star
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‘Atlas Shrugged: Part II’ Review: Tea-Party ‘Twilight’ Improves a Bit in This Still-Strident Sequel
Whatever your feelings about Ayn Rand’s philosophies, the sermonizing and speechifying runs thick in this second installment
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‘Seven Psychopaths’ Review: It’s a Throat-Slitting, Bloody, Lunatic Hoot
Martin McDonagh’s follow-up to “In Bruges” is too self-aware by half, but the brilliant ensemble cast keeps the bloody laughs coming
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‘The Paperboy’ Review: A Lurid, Sweaty, Sticky Mess
Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron grunt and grope their way through a movie that should have been more serious — or way more campy
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‘Frankenweenie’ Review: Tim Burton Returns to Form With a (Very) Young Frankenstein
The visionary behind “Beetlejuice” and “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure” comes out to play in this ghoulishly entertaining horror-comedy
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‘Taken 2’ Review: Shoddy Sequel Has a Particular Set of Stupid
Liam Neeson’s bad-ass ex-CIA agent returns in a less plausible and far less thrilling second go-round
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‘Hotel Transylvania’ Review: Hey, This Sucker Is Really Funny
This mad monster party is so much fun that not even Adam Sandler can spoil it
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‘Looper’ Review: Stylish Time-Travel Tale That Loses Race With Clock
Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s young-Bruce-Willis makeup is never not distracting in Rian Johnson’s latest
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‘Pitch Perfect’ Review: Forget ‘Glee,’ This Tuneful, Silly College Musical Stays on Key
Anna Kendrick leads an appealing cast in this hilariously silly saga of intensely competitive undergrad a cappella singing groups
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‘House at the End of the Street’ Review: Silly Third Act Drags Down the Property Value
There’s a germ of a good idea in this teen thriller starring Jennifer Lawrence, but then the characters and the plot twists start getting too stupid
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‘How to Survive a Plague’ Review: Turns Out You Can Fight City Hall, Even When It’s the White House
Stirring documentary connects the dots between ACT UP’s media-savvy protests and the creation of the “cocktail” that made AIDS less of a death sentence
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‘End of Watch’ Review: Compelling Drama From a Cop’s Point of View
Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña’s LAPD officers get swept up in a larger plot that sneaks up on them — and, interestingly, the movie itself
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‘Dredd 3D’ Review: An Action Movie Not Smart Enough to Know How Dumb It Is
A second attempt at adapting the violent British comic book isn’t helped by the obvious comparisons to the recent “The Raid: Redemption”
