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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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
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‘Grudge Match’ Review: Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone’s Reputations Take Another Dive
Watching these screen legends goofing on their own career highlights might’ve been fun, but this staggeringly inane comedy feels more like desecration than inside-joking
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Alonso Duralde Picks 10 Worst Movies of the Year
Sequels! Stars! Beanstalks! They all played a role in the year’s very worst.
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‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Review: For Scorsese and DiCaprio, Nothing Exceeds Like Excess (Video)
Even if it overstays its welcome, this deliciously overstuffed movie is the orgy of ill-gotten indulgence that “The Great Gatsby” wanted to be
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Best & Worst 2013: Alonso Duralde’s Top 10 Movie Picks (Video)
TheWrap’s Reviews Editor has a hard time limiting himself to 10 this year
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‘Anchorman 2’ Review: Will Ferrell Sequel More Sketchy-Sketch-Sketch Than a Movie (Video)
Ron Burgundy and company lob lots of gags at the screen — and many of them stick — but with no real story or structure, the joke parade becomes exhausting
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5 Peter O’Toole Performances You Might Have Missed
He’ll be remembered forever for “Lawrence of Arabia,” but O’Toole was also better as a singing headmaster in “Goodbye, Mr. Chips” than you might think
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‘A Madea Christmas’ Review: Holiday Hilarity, but Only When Tyler Perry’s Leading Lady Is On-Screen
The movie’s comedy quotient will reward viewers hearty enough to slog through Perry’s signature brand of schmaltz, melodrama and sloppy plotting
