Alonso Duralde

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For 798 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Alonso Duralde's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Challengers
Lowest review score: 0 Memory
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 452 out of 798
  2. Mixed: 213 out of 798
  3. Negative: 133 out of 798
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    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Alonso Duralde
    Keeping Up with the Joneses
    This black hole of a film is a waste of this talented crew’s time, yes, but it’s also a waste of audience time, offering no laughs, no ideas, no fresh perspectives, nothing.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 0 Alonso Duralde
    Memory
    Memory often feels more like a direct-to-video threequel than an actual movie.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 35 Alonso Duralde
    Suspiria
    So what does Guadagnino’s version convey? Boredom, mostly, with confusion and a dollop of disappointment and irritation.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Alonso Duralde
    Zoolander 2
    There are no build-ups or pay-offs here, just a lot of random moments of people saying stupid stuff, and fashion people being gently lampooned.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 35 Alonso Duralde
    Truth
    Blanchett, as you’d imagine, is riveting, even when she’s saddled with the movie’s on-the-nose dialogue, not to mention a handful of fairly contrived domestic scenes.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 35 Alonso Duralde
    The Smashing Machine
    It’s entirely possible that Benny Safdie was out to craft a different kind of underdog sports movie, one where the audience isn’t manipulated into raising a triumphant fist at the end. But surely the writer-director-editor hoped for more than a disinterested shrug.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Alonso Duralde
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a movie that takes its characters and its premise seriously, until it doesn't, and that operates at two speeds: tortoise (ponderous) and hare (head-spinning).
    • 31 Metascore
    • 5 Alonso Duralde
    Friend Request
    An utterly idiotic movie that uses social media as a conduit for witchcraft and mayhem.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 32 Alonso Duralde
    The Boxtrolls
    Lacking appealing characters (or character design), this misfire will, with any luck, eventually become a forgotten footnote among the output of a production company that has, up until now, shown real promise at making films that defy the usual tropes and storytelling mechanisms in contemporary family-friendly animation.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 25 Alonso Duralde
    Babylon
    It’s a hyped-up cocaine conversation of a movie, throwing out lots of ideas and images and mammoth set pieces without ever amounting to anything.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 20 Alonso Duralde
    They Came Together
    The characters, the situations, and the story are whatever they need to be in the moment to launch whatever joke the movie feels like telling at that moment. This is Wain and Showalter working in “Wet Hot American Summer” spoof mode, and if you're a fan of that movie, you may well like this one as well.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Alonso Duralde
    House of Gucci
    This true-crime saga of the Gucci family losing control of their own fashion empire could have been a full-blown camp classic were it not so frequently dull and tentative.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 30 Alonso Duralde
    Dean
    The loss doesn’t hit, and the comedy doesn’t land, leaving Dean a wasted opportunity that offers a few talented artists the chance to do fine work in the service of an empty vessel.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 25 Alonso Duralde
    The Laundromat
    The Laundromat flails about, with an excess of bad ideas that undercut the justifiable outrage over the events depicted.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 25 Alonso Duralde
    Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    This adventure should have been spooky and witty and exciting, but instead it’s just dreary and dull. Peculiarity has rarely been this tedious.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 25 Alonso Duralde
    War Dogs
    This airless, laugh-less true story about 20-something wheeler-dealers who became arms salesmen during the Bush-Cheney invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan has no point of view, nor anything to say about war or commerce or even 20-somethings who wheel and deal.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 25 Alonso Duralde
    Drive-Away Dolls
    Drive-Away Dolls is, at its core, a comedy about eccentric people contending with inept but still deadly criminals. But neither the eccentrics nor the criminals feel remotely like real people, and their hijinks never summon up much hilarity or suspense.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 35 Alonso Duralde
    War Machine
    What’s most dispiriting about War Machine is that you can sense the satire it wants to be — and could have been — but never becomes.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 30 Alonso Duralde
    Trolls
    Combines the barely-there characterization and irritating cutesiness of “The Smurfs” with the hideous character design and awful pop covers of “Strange Magic.”
    • 55 Metascore
    • 36 Alonso Duralde
    Tusk
    It's not even that the film shifts wildly in tone as much as the fact that none of those tones work at all: the horror parts aren't scary and, surprisingly for Smith, the comedy bits aren't funny.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Alonso Duralde
    Ricki and the Flash
    It’s fine to forfeit elements like stakes or suspense for a character piece, but when the characters are this vague, there’s nothing on which to hang your hat (or headband, for that matter).
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Alonso Duralde
    Bad Boys: Ride or Die
    The fourth film of a franchise that probably should have packed it in at least two movies ago, this by-the-numbers sequel offers absolutely nothing unexpected, starting with its opening beaches-and-bikinis montage to the climactic standoff with the villain.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Alonso Duralde
    The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
    It’s the absence of Lawrence — or at least of any young performer matching her charisma — that’s a key part of the problem here.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Alonso Duralde
    The Little Things
    Overall, The Little Things — which is how Deke refers to the details that lead to killers being caught — isn’t much of anything.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 35 Alonso Duralde
    Long Weekend
    If you ever wondered what Richard Linklater’s “Before” trilogy would be like without the insightful writing, sharp directing and intuitive performances, Long Weekend will pretty much fill the bill.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 35 Alonso Duralde
    The Hollars
    The Hollars feels so painfully familiar and so dramatically undernourished that even the great Margo Martindale can only do so much with this cliché-riddled script.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 35 Alonso Duralde
    Red Sparrow
    Neither intelligent enough to be involving nor fun enough to be trashy, this is a movie that would only work if it were a little worse or a lot better.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 35 Alonso Duralde
    Our Brand Is Crisis
    Even a better political satire would have a hard time keeping up with the bizarrely eccentric vaudeville currently taking place on cable news, but Our Brand Is Crisis can’t even come close.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 20 Alonso Duralde
    Blackhat
    Blackhat is such a massive fiasco that it’s hard to know where to begin analyzing it.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 35 Alonso Duralde
    Trap
    Usually, the architecture of a thriller involves introducing a complicated scenario and then slowly but surely ratcheting up the tension; with Trap, Shyamalan has chosen to set it and forget it, spelling out the circumstances of the titular snare and then rarely bothering to introduce new elements or to elevate the suspense.
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