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Alonso Duralde

Alonso Duralde

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Publications:
AfterElton.com , HitFix , IFC.com , Linoleum Knife , Movieline , Movies.com , MSNBC , Newsweek , Queer Sighted , The Wrap , What the Flick?!
Critics' Group:
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Total Reviews:
779

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
42% All Is Bright (2013) " For people who like their Christmas movies set under slate-grey skies." — Linoleum Knife
Posted Oct 6, 2013
74% Concussion (2013) " It's hard not to think about Last Tango in Paris, The Stepford Wives, Belle de Jour and Jeanne Dielmann as we experience Abby's spiritual and sensual reawakening." — The Wrap
Posted Oct 4, 2013
25% Machete Kills (2013) " The sequel Machete Kills opens with a fake trailer for a not-yet-produced third installment, then spends the next 100-plus minutes making a case for plunging a knife into the franchise's heart." — The Wrap
Posted Oct 3, 2013
100% All Is Lost (2013) " All Is Lost was clearly a challenge to produce, and it makes its own demands on its viewers. It's a worthwhile effort on both counts." — The Wrap
Posted Oct 3, 2013
8% Runner Runner (2013) " Provides the world with very little except some great clips for Ben Affleck's eventual Golden Globe Life Achievement reel." — The Wrap
Posted Oct 2, 2013
53% A.C.O.D. (2013) " This is the sort of movie you watch on a long flight because you like at least one of the cast members, and you laugh a few times, and then you forget that you ever saw it. " — The Wrap
Posted Oct 2, 2013
46% Parkland (2013) " While this cast and this story could easily have filled, say, a ten-hour HBO miniseries, this 93-minute film too often feels like a blink-and-you'll-miss-em affair." — The Wrap
Posted Oct 1, 2013
90% Inequality For All (2013) " If you're looking for a streamlined explanation for the mess the U.S. economy's in, and how we might get out, it's as good a place to start as any." — The Wrap
Posted Sep 26, 2013
71% C.O.G. (2013) " Alvarez rides a fine line with the Candide-esque nature of the story, pointing out the absurdities of the people that David meets along the way but never skirting the fact that wiseacre David has a lot to learn about the real world." — The Wrap
Posted Sep 19, 2013
83% Don Jon (2013) " For his first time behind the camera, Gordon-Levitt is already showing signs of great promise. It's a stereotype that actors-turned-filmmakers focus solely on performances, and while Don Jon is certainly a well-acted movie, it's also a good-looking one." — The Wrap
Posted Sep 19, 2013
50% Thanks For Sharing (2013) " Substitute his sex addiction for, say, alcohol or cocaine, and it's a tale that's been told countless times." — The Wrap
Posted Sep 18, 2013
95% Enough Said (2013) " The good kind of fall movie - intelligent, literate and entertaining, deserving of praise without ever nakedly angling for awards. Prizes would be nice, but the best result would be for the powers that be to give Holofcener more money to make more films." — The Wrap
Posted Sep 17, 2013
88% Rush (2013) " An exhilarating surprise from a director who's been playing it safe for most of his career. Like his heroes, he takes a risk and wins." — The Wrap
Posted Sep 17, 2013
53% The Muslims Are Coming (2013) " An amusing and timely movie, even if it's basically a Daily Show sketch writ large." — Linoleum Knife
Posted Sep 13, 2013
86% Blue Caprice (2013) " It's the exploration of their human frailty and their brokenness, and the step-by-step examination of the events that would lead to this barbarity, that give Blue Caprice its intensity." — The Wrap
Posted Sep 13, 2013
33% Jayne Mansfield's Car (2013) " It's one thing to explore the messiness of familial relationships and regret against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, and something else entirely to try and shove every jot and tiddle in place before the closing credits roll." — The Wrap
Posted Sep 13, 2013
33% The Family (2013) " No one's ever going to accuse Besson of having a light comic touch, but the mayhem in this minor mob comedy, more often than not, brings the laughs." — The Wrap
Posted Sep 12, 2013
35% Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) " If you're a fan of the post-Poltergeist shocks and scares offered up by the first Insidious, then you'll be thrilled to hear that Chapter 2 manages to jolt and unsettle without merely repeating itself." — The Wrap
Posted Sep 12, 2013
95% The Crowd () " The Crowd is a masterpiece - moving, funny, heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful. It's a must for anyone interested in the roots of moviemaking, and it's a good choice to show to someone who thinks they wouldn't like silent films." — Linoleum Knife
Posted Sep 11, 2013
89% Dallas Buyers Club (2013) " McConaughey is the only reason to see Dallas Buyers Club, but he's enough of a reason to see Dallas Buyers Club." — The Wrap
Posted Sep 9, 2013
34% Adore (2013) " An exceedingly silly, sun-baked sex movie, the kind of import that adds just enough brains to its genitals to get into U.S. arthouses. (In the '70s, the mothers would have been played by Laura Antonelli and Sylvia Kristel.)" — The Wrap
Posted Sep 6, 2013
73% 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (2013) " The movie very skillfully goes from the macro (coverage of the various demonstrations and encampments) to the micro (interviews with individuals who suffered in the mortgage crisis, searing examination of the behavior of the police)." — The Wrap
Posted Sep 6, 2013
15% Winnie Mandela (2013) " It would have benefited the film if Roodt had been as bold with the mechanics of his storytelling as he is with his inclusion of the title character's less savory moments. But its strengths, particularly the two lead performances, far outweigh its flaws." — The Wrap
Posted Sep 6, 2013
34% Touchy Feely (2013) " The kind of film that makes you wish they had perfected choose-your-own-adventure technology for movies, one that would allow you to ditch the central character and follow any number of the story's more interesting second bananas." — The Wrap
Posted Sep 6, 2013
88% Captain Phillips (2013) " The filmmakers are as interested in the human element as they are in the true events they're recounting. It's too bad that they couldn't have made their real-life bad guys as multi-dimensional as their hero." — The Wrap
Posted Sep 6, 2013
99% Short Term 12 (2013) " There are any number of ways that Cretton could have made this material precious or sentimental, but he honors the story by forcing us to come to the characters rather than by underlining everything with close-ups and obvious musical cues." — Linoleum Knife
Posted Sep 4, 2013
34% Salinger (2013) " This documentary is, perhaps, a lengthy advertisement for those upcoming books as well as the new biography, but it certainly stands on its own as a revealing glimpse at the genius and the misanthropy of a legendary man of letters." — The Wrap
Posted Sep 4, 2013
60% Riddick (2013) " If you were to make a comedy about an actor who makes cheesy sci-fi action movies, and you needed a hilarious clip of his work that underscored the awfulness of his output, just about any 30-second segment of Riddick would do the trick." — The Wrap
Posted Sep 4, 2013
7.2/10 80% Drinking Buddies (2013) " It's a romantic comedy that doesn't stick to formula -- I honestly had no idea how things were going to turn out. " — What the Flick?!
Posted Aug 29, 2013
64% One Direction: This Is Us (2013) " For audiences willing to spend some time basking in the glow of the teen sensation of the moment, this docu-music-infomercial is as palatable, and as disposable, as the group's hit songs." — The Wrap
Posted Aug 28, 2013
46% Closed Circuit (2013) " It's a story that means to shock us with a tale of wrongdoings and cover-ups at the highest levels, but in this post-Edward Snowden/Chelsea Manning era, does any government-sanctioned chicanery come as a real surprise anymore?" — The Wrap
Posted Aug 26, 2013
74% The Grandmaster (2013) " Still, a butchered Wong Kar-Wai movie is better than most filmmakers' purest work, so even if the plot occasionally zips by at too quick a clip, The Grandmaster is a lush, albeit rushed, meal that's worth consuming on the big screen." — The Wrap
Posted Aug 23, 2013
75% You're Next (2013) " A clever, genuine and crisply chilling take on terror that should appeal to cinephiles and Saturday night popcorn-throwers alike." — The Wrap
Posted Aug 22, 2013
12% The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) " [The filmmakers] throw in everything from witches and vampires and demons to gay warlocks, mini-skirted monster hunters and werewolf bikers, but this silly epic never goes anywhere remotely interesting." — The Wrap
Posted Aug 20, 2013
89% The World's End (2013) " As a beer-lover might put it, an experience that's both heady and effervescent" — The Wrap
Posted Aug 20, 2013
81% Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) " It's a gorgeous film to behold, but writer-director David Lowery gets so wrapped up in the visuals that the storytelling lags at critical moments. " — The Wrap
Posted Aug 16, 2013
31% Austenland (2013) " Austenland is so sluggish and plodding that I started imaging a cross-over with another fantasy-resort movie, wherein the Yul Brynner gunslinger robot from Westworld would show up and lay waste to all of these dullards." — The Wrap
Posted Aug 15, 2013
26% Jobs (2013) " At an overlong 127 minutes, Jobs paradoxically feels like it's rushing through Jobs' life and times, never capturing the man's contradictory nature or satisfyingly placing him in a specific historical context." — The Wrap
Posted Aug 14, 2013
30% Kick-Ass 2 (2013) " If the original felt like it was designed for adolescents, however, this follow-up feels like it was made by an adolescent, one with a whopping case of ADHD." — The Wrap
Posted Aug 14, 2013
84% Prince Avalanche (2013) " Prince Avalanche is a remake of an Icelandic movie (Either Way), but it's pure David Gordon Green, from its absurdist humor to its quiet, haunted landscapes. (David Wingo's delicate score enhances both the wit and the wonder.)" — The Wrap
Posted Aug 9, 2013
4% Paranoia (2013) " Its twists are either predictable or improbable, and its double-crosses are so inert they're more like crosses-and-a-half." — The Wrap
Posted Aug 9, 2013
73% Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) " It's too bad Daniels seemingly felt compelled to fish for tears, because The Butler has no shortage of powerful scenes and memorable performances." — The Wrap
Posted Aug 8, 2013
91% In a World... (2013) " It's rare to complain that a movie has too many ideas, but it feels as though Bell took every last notecard off of her bulletin board and crammed them into a single screenplay. " — The Wrap
Posted Aug 8, 2013
27% Planes (2013) " As shameless an attempt by Disney to sell more bedspreads to the under-10s as Planes is, it nonetheless manages to be a minor lark that will at least mildly amuse anyone who ever thrust their arms outward and pretended to soar over the landscape." — The Wrap
Posted Aug 6, 2013
38% Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) " In an age where even The Smurfs 2 has to arch an eyebrow and pretend that it's hipper than itself, there's something refreshing about the lack of irony in the Percy Jackson series. " — The Wrap
Posted Aug 6, 2013
47% We're The Millers (2013) " By ending with outtakes that wind up being the funniest part of the film, "We're the Millers" basically confesses that its talented cast would have been much better off untethered from the pedestrian screenplay." — The Wrap
Posted Aug 5, 2013
34% Passion (2013) " Passion smacks of self-parody; by the time De Palma makes his way to some intended-to-be-jolting final shots, I found myself laughing out loud at his shamelessness." — The Wrap
Posted Aug 2, 2013
7.8/10 91% The Spectacular Now (2013) " The word "alcoholic" is never uttered in this movie, but more and more, you see that's the crutch." — What the Flick?!
Posted Aug 1, 2013
22% The Canyons (2013) " Those open to a chilly exploration of Hollywood anomie may be surprised at how compelling this tale of amoral showbiz outsiders often manages to be." — The Wrap
Posted Aug 1, 2013
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