Alonso Duralde
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‘Rio 2’ Review: A Zippy Musical Trapped Inside a Tedious Kiddie Movie
When the fine feathered (and amphibian) cast sings and dances, you almost forget what a bore the rest of this sequel is
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‘Joe’ Review: Nicolas Cage Can Still Act, When Asked To
Director David Gordon Green builds a fascinating world with rich characters, but the plot gets in the way of the film’s subtler charms
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‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ Review: Tilda Swinton and Jim Jarmusch Revive the Moribund Vampire Genre (Video)
Undead and louche, these Eurotrashy vamps bring wit and poignancy to a tale you thought you were sick of hearing
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Mickey Rooney Death: Alonso Duralde Looks Back at the Hollywood Legend’s Life and Career
The indefatigable performer survived the Depression, the end of the studio system and the dawn of television in a life that was uniquely 20th century
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‘Under the Skin’ Review: A Is for ‘Alien’ and ‘Arthouse’ in This Oblique Scarlett Johansson Puzzler
The director of “Birth” and “Sexy Beast” returns after a decade-long absence with an enigmatic film that will entrance some and baffle many
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‘Alan Partridge’ Review: Steve Coogan’s Hilarious Creation Remains Vain, Even at Gunpoint
In this pungently funny media satire, a has-been sees a hostage crisis as a way to get back on television
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‘Afflicted’ Review: Clever, But Not Enough to Overcome Two Tired Horror Sub-Genres
It’s a better first-person mock-documentary thriller than most, but it’s nonetheless a first-person mock-doc thriller — and something else you’re probably sick of, but to reveal that would be telling too much
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‘Sabotage’ Review: Schwarzenegger Came Back to Hollywood for This?
Without Ah-nuld’s name attached, this noisy, stupid and semi-incoherent blood bath would go directly to DVD without passing Go or collecting $200
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‘The Raid 2’ Review: Imagine an Exhilaratingly Hyper-Violent MGM Musical
Multi-hyphenate Gareth Evans returns to Indonesia for another insanely graphic fight movie that keeps upping its own glorious ante
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‘Nymphomaniac, Vols. I & II’ Review: Lars von Trier’s Sexual Tragicomedy Starts Strong, Loses Potency
Charlotte Gainsbourg plays a Scheherazade of the genitals, recounting the history of her sexual obsessions to a captivated Stellan Skarsgård
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‘Noah’ Review: Darren Aronofsky’s Biblical ‘Waterworld’ Mostly Runs Aground (Video)
Russell Crowe plays a zero-population-growth Noah in a movie stuck between being a straightforward Biblical epic and a full-tilt-boogie arthouse film
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‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Review: Superheroic, Yes, But Smart and Subversive Too (Video)
A hero who’s literally wrapped in the flag must come to terms with the Age of the NSA, in a film that asks some big questions in between stirring fight scenes
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‘Divergent’ Review: A Little ‘Hunger Games,’ a Little ‘Harry Potter,’ a Lot of Dull (Video)
This Frankenstein of stitched-together YA parts never stands on its own two feet, even with Kate Winslet giving full-on Faye Dunaway
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‘The Single Moms Club’ Review: Moviegoers — and Moms Especially — Deserve Better
Only Tyler Perry can make a movie that’s laughably sexist and racist and still completely dull
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‘Muppets Most Wanted’ Review: Caper Sequel Proves Second Verse Can Be as Good as the First
Self-aware jokes, absurdist plot twists — and who else would put Danny Trejo and Ray Liotta in musical numbers?
