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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    • 52 Metascore
    • 65 Alonso Duralde
    The United States vs. Billie Holiday
    The United States vs. Billie Holiday never completely works as a drama, but it does ultimately succeed in two important ways: The film provides a launchpad for Andra Day’s exceptional acting talents as well as her gifts as a singer, and enriches the public understanding of Holiday’s persecution, funded by taxpayer dollars, for daring to speak truth to power through her art.
    • 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.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 65 Alonso Duralde
    Wolfs
    The film ultimately exists as a delivery device for Clooney and Pitt to engage in prickly banter and deadpan wisecracking. Any ideas deeper than that are rejected like an unsuitable liver.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 65 Alonso Duralde
    Hacksaw Ridge
    While Hacksaw Ridge is undeniably made with great care and skill, for all of its good intentions it can never refute that famous Truffaut observation that making an anti-war film is essentially impossible, since to portray something is to ennoble it. In celebrating this legendary pacifist, Gibson and company ennoble the hell out of violence.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 65 Alonso Duralde
    Born in China
    Born in China” doesn’t flip the script in any significant way, but while the storytelling here has significant weaknesses, it’s hard to stay mad at any movie that offers so many close-ups of an insanely adorable baby panda.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 65 Alonso Duralde
    Jane Got a Gun
    Jane Got a Gun takes long pauses in the action to chronicle through flashbacks how this love triangle comes to defend a single home. The film’s greatest surprise is that these unabashedly emotional flashbacks work.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 65 Alonso Duralde
    Kong: Skull Island
    It lacks neither fun nor polish, but it has the square tidiness of a compartmentalized fast-food meal.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 65 Alonso Duralde
    Morgan
    Whatever its flaws, this is a rare genre movie that allows two women — both Mara and Taylor-Joy are coolly riveting, particularly when they’re playing off each other — to take center stage in both the drama and the action, both of which get pretty intense.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 65 Alonso Duralde
    Elio
    While the adventure is suitably wild and the sidekicks are at least visually appealing, Elio never quite clicks in the way that viewers have come to expect from the people behind Toy Story 3 and Finding Nemo.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 65 Alonso Duralde
    Keanu
    This crime comedy doesn’t consistently deliver, but the highs make the lows worth enduring.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 65 Alonso Duralde
    Godmothered
    For the most part, Godmothered is a mixed-bag of clever comedy and banal kid-movie clichés, but director Sharon Maguire (“Bridget Jones’ Baby”) and writers Kari Granlund (2019’s “Lady and the Tramp”) and Melissa Stack (“The Other Woman”) craft an ending that’s so emotionally and intellectually satisfying that it’s easy to forgive the film’s less magical attributes.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 65 Alonso Duralde
    Wild Mountain Thyme
    Whether or not the word “whimsy” makes you flinch is probably a fair indicator of whether Wild Mountain Thyme is for you, but if you’re looking for the cinematic equivalent of a hot cup of tea on a blustery day, you might find yourself developing a taste for its particular brand of quirky romance.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 65 Alonso Duralde
    You, Me & Tuscany
    You, Me & Tuscany has all the heft of a squash blossom, and it’s similarly tasty without being filling. But sometimes, you just want one anyway.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 65 Alonso Duralde
    Assassination Nation
    It’s always apparent what Assassination Nation is going for, and it more often than not fulfills its ambitions, and the hits more than make up for the misses.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 65 Alonso Duralde
    Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
    The follow-up to 2016’s “Doctor Strange” hits the ooh-and-aah marks we expect from a well-crafted Marvel adventure, but even with Sam Raimi at the helm, this entry goes heavy on the spectacle but light on the humanity.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 65 Alonso Duralde
    Action Point
    As post-“Jackass” movies go, Action Point makes more of an effort to sandwich some plot between the literally painful slapstick comedy, but if you love that formula — Knoxville falls off something, or into something, or has something projected at him, making him wince and then deliver his famous high-pitched giggle — you’ll want a ticket to ride.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 65 Alonso Duralde
    Hustlers
    Hustlers is an uneven but mostly entertaining tale of strippers exploiting their exploiters.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 65 Alonso Duralde
    Civil War
    Civil War ultimately risks nothing and subsequently says nothing; it’s a thrilling war picture cosplaying as an examination of the zeitgeist.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 64 Alonso Duralde
    Dog Man
    He makes his way to the big screen with silliness (and a love of tennis balls) intact, but Dog Man deserves a frenetic pace to match its barrage of absurd jokes and plot twists.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Alonso Duralde
    Gladiator II
    Unfortunately, Scott has chosen not to fill every one of the 148 minutes of this sequel with wacky, quotable moments or with a strapping Paul Mescal taking on soldiers, sharks, or mad monkeys — rest assured, the Aftersun star does do all of those things — and when Gladiator II is being neither wild nor crazy, it’s all a little dull.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 62 Alonso Duralde
    Madame Web
    None of this would work without Johnson, whose gift for side-eye and deadpan line readings grounds what could be a very silly story into one with real human stakes (that do not, thankfully, involve the fate of the entire world).
    • 62 Metascore
    • 62 Alonso Duralde
    Young Woman and the Sea
    Young Woman is a biopic with all sharp edges removed, the kind of non-threatening, inspirational Disney movie that teachers screen for fidgety students on the last day of fourth grade.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 62 Alonso Duralde
    Primate
    For sheer horror pleasure and monster-movie squirms, this silly monkey movie delivers the goods.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 62 Alonso Duralde
    Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
    It’s nothing special, but it’s nothing awful, either.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 62 Alonso Duralde
    The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
    Tweens who are less familiar with temporal-anomaly cinema and TV will no doubt be entranced by this concept and by the talented cast that brings it to fruition. More seasoned viewers who have seen this kind of thing before have seen this kind of thing before, have seen this kind of thing before.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 62 Alonso Duralde
    Alien: Covenant
    On a gutbucket genre-film level, Alien Covenant delivers when it delivers. As with so many of its monster-movie peers, however, there’s just not much to it when the creature isn’t preening for its close-up.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 62 Alonso Duralde
    Wuthering Heights
    There’s a lot more sex in this Wuthering Heights, but the characters are flatter, the story is duller, and by the film’s climax, any dramatic momentum has been swept away by the winds on the moors.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 62 Alonso Duralde
    Ant-Man
    There are individual pieces of the movie that work wonderfully.... Unfortunately, this is also the kind of movie where talented actors do some of their least notable work.
    • 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.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 62 Alonso Duralde
    Night Swim
    Night Swim mostly delivers, veering from straightforward shocks to campy excess without ever hitting bottom.
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