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Alonso Duralde

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Publications:: AfterElton.com , HitFix , IFC.com , Movieline , Movies.com , MSNBC , Newsweek , Queer Sighted , The Wrap , What the Flick?!
Critics' Group:: Los Angeles Film Critics Association

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	98%	Before Midnight (2013)	" Whether they're taking a lengthy car trip or strolling through a Greek village, their badinage is so organic that you'd never guess the two had written, much less rehearsed, all this dialogue." — The Wrap Posted May 23, 2013
	67%	Epic (2013)	" When the filmmakers take little detours from the reluctant-warrior-accepts-his/her-destiny plot, it brings some desperately needed livening up to what otherwise feels like a crushingly by-the-numbers kid saga." — The Wrap Posted May 22, 2013
	75%	Fast & Furious 6 (2013)	" Lin and his team do an extraordinary job of staging the ever-escalating action sequences, up to a jaw-on-the-floor finale involving various four-wheel vehicles in and around a cargo plane that's trying to take off." — The Wrap Posted May 21, 2013
	43%	Black Rock (2013)	" It seemed that Black Rock might take its very basic premise and use it as a platform to explore larger ideas. But even on its own terms as just a lean-and-mean genre exercise, this one's not all that interesting." — The Wrap Posted May 17, 2013
	94%	Frances Ha (2013)	" The understated final moments made me happier than any other filmgoing experience I've had all year." — The Wrap Posted May 16, 2013
	87%	Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)	" One of the general strengths of Star Trek Into Darkness, in fact, is the feeling of high stakes and genuine threat, which is exceedingly hard to pull off in any long-running franchise." — The Wrap Posted May 14, 2013
	83%	Venus And Serena (2013)	" Fans probably won't learn much they don't already know, but the film covers enough ground to feel like the movie equivalent of one of those lengthy, in-depth articles you used to get in the magazine of your Sunday newspaper." — The Wrap Posted May 10, 2013
	36%	Peeples (2013)	" It's often rote and by-the-numbers, but writer-director Tina Gordon Chism injects the proceedings with enough smart chat, clever situations and spot-on casting choices to make this well-traveled road feel a little less stale." — The Wrap Posted May 10, 2013
	50%	The Great Gatsby (2013)	" This film marks the official moment in which Baz Luhrmann's signature style has become self-parody. So we beat on, boats against the current, jumping the shark." — The Wrap Posted May 5, 2013
	50%	Scatter My Ashes At Bergdorf's (2013)	" Granted, not every documentary is necessarily required to dig up dirt and say awful things, but the overbearing gush gets tiresome." — The Wrap Posted May 2, 2013
	78%	Iron Man 3 (2013)	" If you're the sort of viewer for whom Black's strengths more than make up for his weaknesses, the best bits of Iron Man 3 will make the lesser stuff worth forgiving -- or at least worth enduring." — The Wrap Posted Apr 30, 2013
	8%	The Big Wedding (2013)	" Sarandon, Keaton and De Niro mesh beautifully, fully convincing as a trio of old friends and carting in lots of characterization that would be otherwise lacking in Zackham's rote screenplay." — The Wrap Posted Apr 26, 2013
	51%	At Any Price (2013)	" Feels like a series of note cards ("father-son conflict," "dad's mistress hits on son") that never weave together to make a gripping plot." — The Wrap Posted Apr 26, 2013
7/10	42%	To The Wonder (2013)	" It looks great, the sound is interesting, the actors are doing what they are asked to do, but it didn't hit me the way The Tree of Life did. For fans only." — What the Flick?! Posted Apr 26, 2013
8.8/10	88%	Upstream Color (2013)	" I have no idea what it was about, and I can't wait to see it again." — What the Flick?! Posted Apr 26, 2013
	99%	Mud (2013)	" Nichols lovingly sketches his characters and their world; he takes his time doing so, but it's a pleasure to watch the small interactions and the humid reality of secret coves and Piggly Wiggly supermarkets and seedy hotels." — The Wrap Posted Apr 25, 2013
	54%	The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013)	" All the elements are there to tell a sharp, strong story, but director Mira Nair and screenwriter William Wheeler take the events of the day and simplify them into a blunt force object where subtlety and wit are replaced by sermonizing and melodramatics." — The Wrap Posted Apr 25, 2013
	88%	In the House (2013)	" Darkly funny and utterly compelling, it's arguably the best teacher-student movie since 1999's Election." — The Wrap Posted Apr 19, 2013
	55%	Oblivion (2013)	" If the dialogue and the concepts of Oblivion had been as fresh and powerful as its art direction, we'd really have something here. Instead, it's something borrowed packaged inside something new." — The Wrap Posted Apr 16, 2013
	4%	Scary Movie 5 (2013)	" This is the sort of movie where you feel bad for Sheen and Lohan, because they hadn't actually hit rock bottom until they agreed to appear in it." — The Wrap Posted Apr 12, 2013
	75%	Simon Killer (2013)	" Another terrific performance from Brady Corbet, but it's in the service of a parade of horrors that never leads anywhere interesting." — The Wrap Posted Apr 12, 2013
	77%	42 (2013)	" For all the 1940s hokiness of 42, with its big cars and big bands and peanuts and Cracker Jack, it's a wonderful surprise to see that there's a recognizable human being at the center of the hoopla." — The Wrap Posted Apr 11, 2013
	68%	Trance (2013)	" I can't remember the last time I had this much fun having the rug pulled out from under me." — The Wrap Posted Apr 5, 2013
	55%	The Company You Keep (2013)	" A thoroughly stodgy exploration of the ghosts of the past that has exceedingly little to say about the Vietnam era, the ethics of violent protest or the standards of what's left of the newspaper business." — The Wrap Posted Apr 4, 2013
	62%	Evil Dead (2013)	" This isn't just the scariest movie in recent memory, it's also the most viscous." — The Wrap Posted Apr 3, 2013
	82%	The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)	" Like a four-hour miniseries crammed into a 90-minute time slot." — What the Flick?! Posted Mar 29, 2013
	16%	Temptation (2013)	" And really, who better to shill for the institution of marriage than 43-year-old bachelor Perry, who uses homosexuality as a punch line (or symbol of evil decadence) and HIV as a cheap plot gimmick?" — The Wrap Posted Mar 29, 2013
	9%	The Host (2013)	" During the dull stretches of The Host -- and, sadly, there are many of them -- you may find yourself rewriting the movie as a French farce." — The Wrap Posted Mar 28, 2013
	94%	Room 237 (2013)	" I found myself torn between wanting to see The Shining again immediately and never, ever wanting to see it again." — The Wrap Posted Mar 27, 2013
	28%	G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)	" Once the story picks up, it's all ka-blam all the time, but rather than generate thrills and excitement, it ultimately becomes enervating." — The Wrap Posted Mar 27, 2013
	81%	From Up On Poppy Hill (2013)	" The screenplay deftly balances the characters' intimate concerns with the nation's historic growing pains, resulting in a story that's as engrossing as the visuals are breathtaking. " — The Wrap Posted Mar 21, 2013
	47%	Olympus Has Fallen (2013)	" The movie makes up in adrenaline what it lacks in brains." — The Wrap Posted Mar 21, 2013
	69%	The Croods (2013)	" This material could have easily fallen into sitcom clichés with a heaping scoop of anachronism jokes on the side, but The Croods takes these characters and their situation seriously enough to make the story matter." — The Wrap Posted Mar 20, 2013
	43%	Admission (2013)	" Would that Fey had been as choosy and critical about the screenplay as her character is about personal essays attached to applications to Princeton University." — The Wrap Posted Mar 20, 2013
	66%	Spring Breakers (2013)	" As presented by Korine, this bacchanal has become codified, conformist and utterly repetitive. Are we having fun yet?" — The Wrap Posted Mar 14, 2013
	41%	The Call (2013)	" When The Call focuses on Berry and her headset, the movie maintains an entertaining level of suspense; when it becomes yet another Silence of the Lambs rip-off, you can feel the tension seep away." — The Wrap Posted Mar 14, 2013
	37%	The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)	" Always seems poised to deliver big laughs but, once the smoke and the pigeons clear, leaves you only with a mild chuckle or two." — The Wrap Posted Mar 13, 2013
4.5/10	37%	Dead Man Down (2013)	" There's a crazypants crime movie and the damaged-people-find-each-other relationship movie, but together, it's a jambalaya that doesn't work." — What the Flick?! Posted Mar 8, 2013
4.5/10	39%	The ABCs of Death (2013)	" It's a mixed bag, and it's mostly mixed toward the not-good." — What the Flick?! Posted Mar 7, 2013
	59%	Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)	" Rather than tell us that everything we know about Oz is wrong, the filmmakers take what we already know about the wonderful wizard and thread it into a tale about the magic behind cinema itself." — The Wrap Posted Mar 5, 2013
	27%	21 And Over (2013)	" 21 & Over provides lots of fun while the beer flows. Too bad the R.A. felt like he had to come in and ask everyone about their major." — The Wrap Posted Mar 1, 2013
	52%	Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)	" The beanstalk looks great; everything else is ugly, or fakey, or both." — What the Flick?! Posted Feb 28, 2013
	67%	Stoker (2013)	" The film has visual style to spare, but even that becomes overwhelming, turning Stoker into self-parody." — The Wrap Posted Feb 28, 2013
	25%	Phantom (2013)	" There's a lot to like about Phantom, but the movie, like the rust-bucket old submarine in which most of it takes place, would be better off dry-docked." — The Wrap Posted Feb 27, 2013
	19%	Inescapable (2013)	" The film tries to meld politically charged personal drama with the action-movie tropes you'd expect in a story set in the Middle East. (Chase through a crowded marketplace? Brawl at the hamam? Check!)" — The Wrap Posted Feb 22, 2013
	34%	Dark Skies (2013)	" A smart little chiller, one that can be read as a metaphor for the American family in crisis during tough economic times or merely as a tense exploration of things that go bump in the night." — The Wrap Posted Feb 22, 2013
	26%	Escape From Planet Earth 3D (2013)	" It's a bowl of warm water into which no one has bothered to place a bouillon cube. The kids in the theater with me never mustered a single laugh or gasp of excitement. It's plenty o' nuttin'." — The Wrap Posted Feb 15, 2013
	92%	No (2013)	" It's a perfectly fine movie, but given its fairly radical storyline, the filmmaking tends to hew toward the safe and the familiar." — The Wrap Posted Feb 14, 2013
	15%	A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)	" While the first Die Hard was a Swiss watch of precise plotting and layered character development - the next three installments could, at least, tell time - A Good Day to Die Hard makes lots of noise but little sense." — The Wrap Posted Feb 13, 2013

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