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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‘Austenland’ Review: Lacking Sense and Sensibility … and Laughs
Clumsy comedy about love-starved ladies seeking a real-life Mr. Darcy squanders its promising premise with lazy writing and haphazard direction
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‘Jobs’ Review: Needs a Trip to the Genius Bar
Ashton Kutcher stars as the Apple exec in a movie that never convincingly portrays him as either genius or bastard
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‘Kick-Ass 2’ Review: Whiny Teens, No Kick-Ass Fun
The original felt like it was designed for adolescents; this feels like it was made by an adolescent with a whopping case of ADHD
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‘Prince Avalanche’ Review: Oddball Little Gem That’s Both Wacky and Lyrical (Video)
David Gordon Green's latest stars Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch as mismatched co-workers stranded on a desolate stretch of Texas highway
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‘Paranoia’ Review: Put This Cellphone-Industry Thriller on Your Do-Not-Call List
Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford slum it in a rehash that’s so predictable and inert that the double-crosses are more like crosses-and-a-half
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‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ Review: A Mass-Audience-Friendly Portrayal of Racism’s Legacy
The director's latest scores as a popcorn-politics survey of 20th century American racism but never becomes the soaring historical tearjerker it clearly aims to be
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‘In a World … ‘ Review: Promising Comedy Juggles More Ideas Than It Can Handle
In her debut as writer-director, Lake Bell doesn’t lack for witty observations, but she gives herself too many plot and character plates to spin
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‘Planes’ Review: More Fun, at Least, Than Being Stuck in ‘Cars’
It’s damning with faint praise, but Disney’s new airborne franchise is more fun than the automotive one that spawned it
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‘Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters’ Review: The Silly, All-Ages Fun of an Old Steve Reeves ‘Hercules’ Movie
Neither cynical, pandering nor ironic, this tale of demi-gods seeking the Golden Fleece feels as fun and frivolous as an old Steve Reeves movie
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Johnny Depp, Don’t Shoot the Messenger for ‘Lone Ranger’ Flop
TheWrap's film critic responds: If film critics could destroy a movie, Michael Bay and Adam Sandler would be working at Starbucks
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‘We’re the Millers’ Review: Pot-Smuggling Comedy Is Mostly Stems and Seeds
Despite a sharp ensemble, this mostly dreary comedy offers a few scattered laughs surrounded by large stretches of Not Funny
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‘Passion’ Review: De Palma Regurgitates Everything in His Bag of Tricks
In what’s technically a remake of a French film, the director borrows from himself liberally — and in this case, familiarity breeds giggles
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‘The Canyons’ Review: A Hollywood Tale Tailor-Made for Today’s Lindsay Lohan
Don’t believe the hype – whether or not they’re acting, Lindsay Lohan and porn star James Deen effectively capture Hollywood nihilism
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‘Elysium’ Review: Bang Go the Guns, Ka-Boom Go the Metaphors
In his follow-up to “District 9,” Neill Blomkamp once again delivers on the action while over-delivering on the message
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‘2 Guns’ Review: Sorry, but Jokiness and Sadism Don’t Mix
Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg’s billion-dollar chemistry can’t quite overcome a script with near-schizophrenic shifts in tone
