Alonso Duralde

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For 799 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: 453 out of 799
  2. Mixed: 213 out of 799
  3. Negative: 133 out of 799
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Alonso Duralde
    Trumbo
    Roach and McNamara fall victim to the occasional phony biopic moment or straight-up moment of didacticism, but overall Trumbo is a lively history about the day-in-day-out drudgery of survival during oppressive times. Screenwriters are so rarely taken seriously by the film industry that it’s a nice switch to watch them be the heroes.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 85 Alonso Duralde
    Spider-Man: Far from Home
    If anything, and this is a compliment, the film frequently feels like a charming teen road-trip comedy that occasionally turns into a superhero movie.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Alonso Duralde
    Patriots Day
    As a retelling of a tragedy that had its moments of heroism among uniformed personnel and indefatigable civilians alike, it gets the job done.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 47 Alonso Duralde
    Welcome to Me
    There’s a sketch, or a short film, or even an Adult Swim series to be mined from these characters and situations, but as a feature film, Welcome to Me comes off like taunting followed by hugs, where neither feels genuine.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Alonso Duralde
    Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
    Teen Titans GO! to the Movies never wears out its welcome, from the hilarious skewering of some of DC’s most sacred cows (Kryptonite, Crime Alley) to a range of musical numbers that include an 80s-style you-can-do-it anthem (compete with sax solo) and hip-hop-flavored self-aggrandizement.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 62 Alonso Duralde
    The Drop
    This is Tom Hardy‘s show, and any opportunity to see this actor exercise his skills merits attention. He, along with the rest of this top-notch ensemble, give “The Drop” far more than they get back.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Alonso Duralde
    Happiest Season
    While some viewers may find the use of the closet and societal homophobia too heavy for this breezy story, there’s a case to be made that including specifically queer concerns into the language of romantic comedy is another step toward genuine inclusiveness.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Alonso Duralde
    Framing Agnes
    Much like the UCLA interviews that inspired it, Framing Agnes is a vital part of the historical record, addressing trans life as we know it right now and providing deeper understanding for current and future viewers.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Alonso Duralde
    Our Souls at Night
    There’s nothing particularly world-shaking about Our Souls at Night, but it’s a nice movie about nice people finding love.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Alonso Duralde
    Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
    This sequel might (in, one hopes, a happier future) be hilarious in retrospect, but at the moment, it’s a mostly cringe-worthy experience.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 55 Alonso Duralde
    The Meddler
    Everyone’s so damn happy and grateful to have been meddled with that it undercuts both the comedy and the drama in this film from writer-director Lorene Scafaria.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 85 Alonso Duralde
    Thunderbolts*
    That Thunderbolts* (and yes, the movie explains that asterisk) emerges as one of the MCU’s most successful team-up movies is its own victory, considering that the team in question is made up of a collection of sidekicks, oddballs, and losers, mostly culled from lesser-known Marvel movies and even TV shows.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 45 Alonso Duralde
    Early Man
    There’s a mild chuckle every so often in Early Man...but overall the movie collapses in a heap of familiarity and lackadaisicalness. Park is an animation legend, but even the greats occasionally whiff it.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Alonso Duralde
    Black Mass
    This is Depp’s show all the way, featuring his best dramatic performance since another organized-crime movie, 1997’s “Donnie Brasco.”
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Alonso Duralde
    God's Pocket
    These characters and their dilemmas could be the stuff of great, or at least good, drama, but Slattery's insistence on accentuating their sorrows with clinically depressed art direction wears thin rather quickly.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Alonso Duralde
    The Hateful Eight
    The Hateful Eight may frustrate some of his more literally sanguine supporters, but it’s nonetheless an entertaining piece of dialogue-driven theater — with the occasional rifle-shot to the head.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 65 Alonso Duralde
    Deep Water
    Deep Water offers so many tawdry delights along the way that its flaws aren’t dealbreakers. Affleck and de Armas might not have lasted as a couple off-camera, but as co-stars, they’re a potent combo.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 71 Alonso Duralde
    Queen and Country
    Breeziness is a quality Queen and Country has plenty of, making for a lovely journey that never ends up anywhere particularly groundbreaking.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Alonso Duralde
    The Water Man
    Amid the excitement — those bugs, a pack of wild horses, a looming forest fire — the film finds room to explore bigger issues, like living life to the fullest even when death is inevitable, and the fact that the toughest-acting kids are often the most vulnerable.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 92 Alonso Duralde
    Why Don't You Play in Hell?
    Like so many memorable yet hard-to-describe movies, Why Don't You Play in Hell? takes a ridiculous concept and commits to it fully. You might laugh with surprise or shriek in horror — both, most likely — but you certainly won't dismiss it.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 65 Alonso Duralde
    Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
    This new movie feels more like a series of sketches that all happen to revolve around the same handful of characters. That said, those sketches are fairly funny, and if this comedy has all the depth of a summer jam, it will eventually be the kind of late-night download that will inspire giggles for years to come.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Alonso Duralde
    Bears
    The Disneynature movies shouldn't be mistaken for traditional documentary, but if they act as a gateway drug for young children to learn more about the animal kingdom — and to open themselves up to more informative non-fiction cinema — then the films are serving a real purpose.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Alonso Duralde
    Avengers: Infinity War
    Directors Joe and Anthony Russo move their many playing pieces around with as much grace as possible, and they offer up jolts of pleasure throughout.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 45 Alonso Duralde
    F1: The Movie
    F1 doggedly follows the expected ups and downs of most sports-movie narratives, and it’s clearly more interested in recreating the experience of racing than telling a story or crafting a character piece.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 55 Alonso Duralde
    A Quiet Place: Day One
    The pleasurable jolt of a silent scare has given way to predictability.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 66 Alonso Duralde
    Deadpool & Wolverine
    While Ryan Reynolds still seems to be having fun playing the cheeky mercenary, both the inside-baseball comedy and the cartoonishly bloody mayhem wear out their welcomes in the film’s final third.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 45 Alonso Duralde
    Beatriz at Dinner
    Somehow, the blistering comedy you would expect never quite manifests, and instead we get a lot of on-the-nose sermonizing and weak-tea social commentary.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Alonso Duralde
    Superman
    The miracle of Superman is that, in 2025, it’s a superhero movie that inspires genuine delight.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Alonso Duralde
    Feast of the Seven Fishes
    Disarming and delightful, the sleeper indie comedy Feast of the Seven Fishes proves anew that the most universal storytelling is also the most specific.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 68 Alonso Duralde
    Crimes of the Future
    At his most memorable, Cronenberg creates viscerally unforgettable images that horrify, yes, but they also provoke with big, shocking ideas about our very selves – the monstrousness of disease, the perhaps inevitable hybrid of the corporeal and the mechanical, the determination of the self. With Crimes of the Future, we’re left with a remove from the material, where no matter what happens, it’s all just performance art.
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