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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Review: Squirm-Worthy ‘The Divide’ a Contemporary Lord of the Flies
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and these shelter-dwelling New Yorkers are ready to kill each other
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Review: ‘Contraband’ Operates by the Numbers, Loses Count
Mark Wahlberg’s got the smuggler’s blues in a generic and uninvolving action flick that wastes its A-list cast
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Review: A Most Displeasing ‘Joyful Noise’
Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah team up for a catastrophic and painfully choppy gospel-flavored comedy
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Review: ‘Norwegian Wood’ Gorgeous and Heartbreaking
Haruki Murakami’s international bestseller becomes a soaring, intimate screen tale of love and loss
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Review: In Stupid ‘Devil Inside,’ Beelzebub Is the New Cooties
Another January, another half-baked exercise in exorcism
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Review: ‘Roadie’ Serves Up Lukewarm Indie Leftovers
Ron Eldard tries valiantly to breathe life into a trite character and a script with all the depth of “test…one-two, one-two”
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Review: ‘Pariah’s’ a Gay Coming-of-Age Story That’s Come of Age
Writer-director Dee Rees’ assured debut shows what life is like for a lesbian teen before It Gets Better
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Review: ‘Darkest Hour’ Shows Just How Dimwitted Alien Prey Can Be
Moronic sci-fi flick casts appealing actors, led by Emile Hirsch, as the most empty-headed survivors imaginable of an alien invasion
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2011’s Top Movie Characters — in Forgettable Movies
It’s like John Waters says: When you get bored in a movie, you should look at the lamps
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Review: Spielberg Pulls the Audience by the Nose with Manipulative ‘War Horse’
Any genuine moment that might have occurred gets pummeled into submission by the slick theatrics of the director and his collaborators
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Even Steven Spielberg Can’t Pull Off Mo-Cap in ‘Tintin’ (Review)
Steven Spielberg turns the timeless comics character into a generic action hero in another rubbery motion-capture animated epic
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Fincher Repeats Himself in Overly Familiar ‘Dragon Tattoo’ (Review)
You don’t have to have read Stieg Larsson’s best-selling books to feel déjà vu over David Fincher’s stylish whodunit
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‘We Bought a Zoo’ Tries Too Hard to Make You Boo-Hoo (Review)
Ramshackle would-be tearjerker from Cameron Crowe feels like Fox asked him to whip up another “Marley and Me”
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‘Mission: Impossible’ Matters Again With Gasp-Inducing ‘Ghost Protocol’
Tom Cruise’s moribund spy franchise gets a much-needed shot of adrenaline from “Incredibles” director Brad Bird
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Polanski Hilariously Explores the ‘Carnage’ of Polite Society
Quartet of sharp comic performances anchors this deliciously dark comedy about New Yorkers who stop being polite and start getting real