Alonso Duralde
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‘The Monuments Men’ Review: George Clooney’s Retro WWII Adventure Could Use Old-Fashioned Rewrite
An all-star cast nails the period flavor, but the storytelling is all over the place as this true story about rescuing art from the Nazis goes from breezy to lumbering
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‘That Awkward Moment’ Review: All the Man-Child Rom-Com Clichés, Plus a Nearly-Nude Zac Efron
While it strains for R-rated raunch, this exceedingly mild comedy just rehashes all the men-are-like-this, women-are-like-that observations from “About Last Night” and “When Harry Met Sally…”
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‘Stranger by the Lake’ Review: Summer Lovin’ with a Murderer
This sexy gay French import offers the kind of terse suspense Hitchcock and Polanski would appreciate
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‘I, Frankenstein’ Review: Aaron Eckhart Lumbers Through Stitched-Together ‘Underworld’ Knock-Off
This dreary horror-superhero hybrid about a war between angels and demons is as soulless as the title character
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‘Gimme Shelter’ Review: Vanessa Hudgens Homeless Drama Also Charmless and Witless
Heavy-handed sermonizing, sloppy writing and overacting render this message movie dull, with flashes of unintentional hilarity
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Alonso Duralde’s Sundance Reviews: ‘Skeleton Twins’ Satisfies, ‘Infinitely Polar Bear’ Overdoses on Cute
The Wrap’s film critic sums up his final Park City screenings, from dysfunctional family dramedy to hard-hitting docs about powerful pedophiles
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‘Boyhood’ Review From Sundance: In Richard Linklater’s Latest, the Child is the Father of the Man
The cast ages in real time in this extraordinary epic of the ordinary, a stirring look at a family’s perseverance through the day-to-day business of getting older and growing up
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Alonso Duralde at Sundance: Gay Marriage Comes to Utah, and Michael Fassbender Gets a Head
Marriage equality plays a role in very different movies, both documentary and narrative
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‘Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit’ Review: Chris Pine Reboots Tom Clancy’s Hero in a Slight But Spry Spy Game
Pine officially becomes Hollywood’s “Mr. Do-Over” in this origin story of the beloved number-crunching CIA agent
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‘Ride Along’ Review: Kevin Hart and Ice Cube Can Overcome Bad Guys, But Not a Bad Script (Video)
This buddy-cop retread wastes two talented performers on substandard material
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‘The Nut Job’ Review: Will Arnett and Maya Rudolph Can’t Save This Cluster Bomb of a Kid Flick
This animated comedy is schizophrenic and frenetic — but at least it looks good
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‘Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones’ Review: How Do You Say ‘Shaky-Cam’ in Spanish?
This fifth chapter of the horror franchise throws some new curves, but is as by-the-numbers as a time code
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‘Interior. Leather Bar.’ Review: James Franco Peers Behind Al Pacino’s ‘Cruising’ Mask
Franco and collaborator Travis Mathews use the controversial 1980 thriller as a prism for examining explicit gay imagery and an actor’s journey
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Alonso Duralde’s Alternative Oscars Wishlist
TheWrap’s film critic indulges in a little wishful thinking about this year’s Academy Awards race
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War Over ‘Wolf of Wall Street’: Scorsese’s Latest Ignites Online Brouhaha
Unlike in the days of the Production Code, storytellers can portray criminal behavior without overtly moralizing about it
