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: ‘Sherlock Holmes’ Sequel Drops a Deduce, Adds a Ka-Blam!
Robert Downey, Jr. quips valiantly amidst a wall of cacophony and empty spectacle that winds up feeling like a Victorian migraine
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Review: Woozy ‘Kevin’ Doesn’t Quite Know What to Say About Columbine
Even Tilda Swinton can’t hold together this exploitative tale of a killer kid and the bad mom who helped make him that way
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Theron Finds the Beauty in Bad Behavior in ‘Young Adult’
“Juno” creators Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman re-team for a character study of a wonderfully monstrous woman
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Review: Ice-Cold ‘Tinker Tailor’ Burns Hot
John le Carré’s espionage classic lives again as a stripped-down but compelling portrait of Cold War spy games
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Review: No Fizz — Just Morons — in This ‘New Year’s Eve’ Champagne
Garry Marshall’s second holiday-based, star-packed comedy filled with contrivances and dopey characters, with barely a laugh among them
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Review: Don’t Hire This ‘Sitter’
Jonah Hill comedy tries to balance tasteless humor with warm fuzzies but fails at both
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Review: Ralph Fiennes Gets the Bard Right in Modernized ‘Coriolanus’
Vanessa Redgrave’s military stage-mom steals the show in Voldemort’s directorial debut
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Review: ‘The Artist’ More Than Just a Monochromatic Homage to Old Movies
Comedy! Romance! Thrills! This black-and-white — and mute — trip back to the early days of talkies is more than just a clever way to tell a tale
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Review: ‘My Week with Marilyn’ = Some Like It Not
Michelle Williams’ Monroe impersonation is uncanny, but it’s at the service of a bland story that focuses on all the wrong things
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Review: Cronenberg’s ‘Dangerous Method’ Would Have Even Freud and Jung Asleep on the Couch
David Cronenberg’s examination of the origins of modern psychoanalysis will have you looking forward to the end of the session
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Review: ‘The Muppets’ Return in True Anarchic, Absurd Style
The deeply felt superstars of TV and movies make a glorious comeback, with Jason Segel and Amy Adams providing strong support
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Review: Witty, Moving ‘Arthur Christmas’ Should Be an Annual Tradition
Aardman Animation’s comedy-adventure about Santa’s son balances wit for adults and enchantment for kids
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Review: More Pouting, More Snarling in ‘Breaking Dawn — Part 1’
Director Bill Condon ups the horror quotient of the “Twilight” franchise, but he’s stuck with the same ridiculous characters from the earlier films
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‘Descendants’: George Clooney as a Cuckold? Heck, Yes!
Review: Clooney does some of his best work to date in a terrific film about hell in paradise, from writer-director Alexander Payne
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‘Jack and Jill’ Confirms It: Adam Sandler Is the New Tyler Perry
Twin comedy offers a few more laughs than the usual Sandler vehicle — but then that’s not saying much, is it?