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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‘Safe’ Review: Jason Statham Gives This B-Movie Some A-Movie Cred
British action star Jason Statham keeps the adrenaline pumping as he protects a young girl from corrupt cops and Russian and Chinese mobsters in "Safe"
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‘Chimpanzee’ Review: Welcome to the Disneyfied, Sanitized Jungle
Stunning photography gets cranked through the happy-ending machine, resulting in a kid-friendly doc that’s neither fish nor fowl
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‘Darling Companion’ Review: This Shaggy Dog’s a Loveable Mutt
Diane Keaton heads an all-star cast that mixes Lawrence Kasdan’s zingy dialogue with his weakness for spoiled Baby Boomers
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‘Think Like a Man’ Review: Cast Makes Romantic Infomercial Click
An engaging cast and a steady stream of laughs help mask the familiarity of this rom-com based on Steve Harvey’s dating guide “Think Like a Man”
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‘The Cabin in the Woods’: See It Before Someone Spoils It
Joss Whedon’s “The Cabin in the Woods,” a witty and scary take on teenagers on a doomed vacation, is best enjoyed if you go in knowing as little as possible
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‘The Three Stooges’: Lots of Yucks Amid the Nyuck-Nyuck-Nyucks
“The Three Stooges,” the comedy nobody wanted, turns out to be hilarious. It’s the Farrelly Brothers’ best since “There’s Something About Mary”
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‘Keyhole’ Review: Where Cops and Robbers Meet Fantasy and Reality
In “Keyhole,” the latest style-drenched epic from director Guy Maddin, a ghost narrates (or does he?) the last stand of a mobster (or is he?)
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‘Damsels in Distress’ Review: Whit Stillman’s Latest Has Great Lyrics, But the Music’s a Little Off
“Metropolitan” director Whit Stillman returns after a long hiatus and once again charts the mating habits of the contemporary preppy
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‘American Reunion’ Review: This Pie Has Become Tasteless
The balance of sweet and smutty that made the original “American Pie” so memorable is sorely absent from this pointless sequel
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‘Bully’ Review: Best Intentions Don’t Always Lead to Best Movies
“Bully,” the buzzed-about documentary, says all the right things about the hot-button issue of bullying but doesn’t say them particularly well
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‘Wrath of the Titans’ Review: Release the Crappy Sequel!
Sure, “Wrath of the Titans” may improve on the awful converted-3D original — but it’s far less compelling than almost anything you can pop into your X-Box these days
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‘The Deep Blue Sea’ Review: Passion and Torment in a Cold-Water Flat
Rachel Weisz mixes sex appeal and melancholy in this examination of an unfaithful wife in post-WWII London
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‘Hunger Games’ Review: Compelling But Implausible, Like ‘American Idol’ with a Body Count
Even non-readers of Suzanne Collins’ bestsellers will get sucked into this future dystopia where teens are forced to compete in bloodsport
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‘Natural Selection’ Review: One Great Performance Can’t Save Trite-and-True(ish) Comedy
Rachael Harris blossoms when she hits the highway to find her husband’s long lost son in a movie with too many familiar signposts