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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‘Melancholia’: the Lars von Trier Movie for People Who Hate Lars von Trier Movies
If it takes destroying the planet for the Danish bad boy to treat human beings as something other than beneath contempt, so be it
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Pedro Almodovar: I Wanted ‘Skin I Live In’ to Be a Black & White Silent Film
Plus, the director talks about reuniting with Antonio Banderas at TheWrap’s Awards Screening Series
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Review: ‘J. Edgar’ Can’t Find the Man in the G-Man
Leonardo DiCaprio and Clint Eastwood explore the FBI founder’s contradictions but never reveal his soul
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Review: ‘Harold & Kumar’ Has Snowmen, Yule Warmth, Humor and a Giant Claymation Penis
Stoner sequel comes by its giggles the old-fashioned way — with 3D bodily functions and Neil Patrick Harris
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Review: ‘Tower Heist’ a Great, Star-Studded Caper — on Paper
Brett Ratner–directed heist comedy looks great and is impeccably cast — too bad about the bland characters and hollow heist
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Review: Trashy, Boisterous ‘Anonymous’ Aims for the Cheap Seats
Roland Emmerich turns the mystery behind the authorship of “Hamlet” into a bodice-ripping, soapy treat
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Review: ‘Like Crazy’ an Irritating Tale of Twits in Love
The photogenic and empathetic Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones can only do so much for characters this annoying
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Review: Fox News Will Hate Fox’s Dopey Socialist Parable, ‘In Time’
The Justin Timberlake-starring smart/stupid dystopia parable couldn’t be more suited to the Occupy movement
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Review: ‘Three Musketeers’ Gives Swashbuckling a Bad Name
Loud, dopey, effects-heavy adaptation crushes the joy and the excitement of one of the all-time great adventure tales
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Review: ‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’ the Chilling Feel-Bad Movie of the Year
Elizabeth Olsen more than earns her it-girl status with this tense, terse look at a woman joining, and then escaping, a creepy cult
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Review: Too-Familiar Things Go Bump in the Night in ‘Paranormal Activity 3’
Despite some effective scares in the second half, the surveillance-cam horror formula is starting to wear a little thin
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Review: Almodovar’s Latest Will Make Your ‘Skin’ Crawl
Antonio Banderas reunites with Almodovar for “The Skin I Live In,” a disturbing tale of identity, obsession and extreme plastic surgery
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Review: ‘Footloose’ Remake a Pleasant, If Cornball, Surprise
Updated version closely stays in the grooves of the 1984 Kevin Bacon original but injects a new verve into some old dance steps
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Review: Owen Wilson’s Bird-Watching ‘Big Year’ Neither Soars Nor Lays an Egg
All-star bird-watching comedy doesn’t quite live up to its potential, but it has the same shaggy, eccentric charm as its obsessive protagonists
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‘Toast’: All Appetizer, No Entree
This tale of a young foodie feels keenly observed and occasionally hilarious, but you’ll leave hungry for an actual story