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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    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Alonso Duralde
    City Hall
    It’s a civics lesson that’s subtly delivered within some thoroughly exciting documentary filmmaking.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Alonso Duralde
    Challengers
    It’s a collective simmer of sight, sound, sweat, and sensation about fascinating, complex people pushed through their paces on and off the court.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Alonso Duralde
    The Human Voice
    This small package stands alongside the exemplary feature-length work in one of this generation’s foremost filmographies.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Alonso Duralde
    Locke
    Hardy might be past needing a star-making performance, but this is the kind of work that raises him to highest echelon of actors working in film today. He and Knight remind us that artists can astonish with the simplest of methods.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Alonso Duralde
    Petite Maman
    It’s particularly resonant, packed with emotion and insight that will move the director’s admirers (who should consider watching it alongside their own children) and probably garner her some new ones.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Alonso Duralde
    A Summer's Tale
    Whether it's the closest you'll get to the beach this year, or you have to tear yourself away from the dunes to enjoy it, it's an essential part of any movie-lover's summer.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Alonso Duralde
    Welcome to Chechnya
    Advocacy meets suspense in Welcome to Chechnya, a chilling examination of both the brutality that the Chechen LGBT community is forced to face on a daily basis and the difficulty of leaving the country for peace and safety.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Alonso Duralde
    We Are the Best!
    You don't have to like punk rock to fall in love with We Are the Best!; if a more joyous film comes along in 2014, then it's a good year indeed.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Alonso Duralde
    Call Me by Your Name
    First love is as much about hesitancy as it is about exuberance – maybe even more so – and Ivory and Guadagnino perfectly capture that sweet turmoil, aided by a gifted ensemble. This isn’t just an instant LGBT classic; this is one of the great movie love stories, for audiences of all stripes.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Alonso Duralde
    Little Women
    In an era in which sentimentality is a seasoning that filmmakers either shun entirely or employ with too heavy a hand, Gerwig crafts a work about love and family and devotion and empathy that is moving without being manipulative. This is a Little Women for the ages.
    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Alonso Duralde
    Boyhood
    As he has throughout his career, from “Slacker” and “Dazed and Confused” to the lovely “Bernie” to the “Before” trilogy, Linklater proves himself as a filmmaker unconcerned with flash and dazzle but thoroughly compassionate and empathetic to a wide range of characters.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Alonso Duralde
    Licorice Pizza
    The film rides upon the shoulders of first-timers Haim (Anderson has directed several of her band’s videos) and Hoffman (son of frequent Anderson collaborator, the late Philip Seymour Hoffman), and they’re both thoroughly engaging.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 98 Alonso Duralde
    Poor Things
    As with Lanthimos’ previous films, Poor Things never allows viewers to get too comfortable or too acclimated to their surroundings; it’s a film that’s constantly throwing set pieces and absurdist humor and over-the-top outfits at the audience, but the effect is exhilarating rather than enervating.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 98 Alonso Duralde
    Grandma
    Grandma is both smart and sweet, mature and bawdy, knowing its characters’ flaws yet open to the possibilities of people acting upon their best instincts. It is without a doubt one of the year’s best films.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 97 Alonso Duralde
    Dunkirk
    Nolan has crafted a film that’s sensational in every sense of the word; it aims for both the heart and the head, to be sure, but arrives there via the central nervous system.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 97 Alonso Duralde
    Marriage Story
    With Marriage Story, Baumbach cements his reputation as one of this generation’s leading humanist filmmakers.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 95 Alonso Duralde
    A War
    Writer-director Tobias Lindholm knows how to keep a human perspective in his storytelling, no matter how outsized the drama or the dilemmas facing his characters.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 95 Alonso Duralde
    On the Rocks
    Jones and Murray (who previously teamed on Coppola’s “A Very Murray Christmas” special) achieve the kind of effortless rapport that spawns “I want them to go solve mysteries” memes, and the key ingredient of that chemistry is that Jones never allows Murray to steal the show.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 95 Alonso Duralde
    New Order
    If good intentions or even pragmatism aren’t enough to make the wealthy and powerful think about income inequality, New Order suggests, there’s always fear.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 95 Alonso Duralde
    Carol
    Both haunting and sweeping, Carol represents another masterwork from one of this generation’s great filmmakers.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 95 Alonso Duralde
    I'm Your Woman
    It’s an exciting ride, but with a wallop of genuine feeling underneath that makes it one of this year’s best films.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 95 Alonso Duralde
    Small Axe: Mangrove
    It’s a consistently powerful ensemble, with Wright reminding us yet again that she has that indefinable something that makes a character actress a movie star.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 95 Alonso Duralde
    The Irishman
    This is a movie that’s rife with characters, with incidents, with ideas, with history, and as such, it will benefit from multiple viewings. But even after the first watch, The Irishman hits hard, and it’s a reminder that nearly 30 years after “GoodFellas,” Martin Scorsese still has fascinating mob tales to tell, and fascinating ways to tell them.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 95 Alonso Duralde
    Spotlight
    Spotlight is that rare journalistic procedural that deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as “All the President’s Men,” and while the movie never glamorizes or makes saints of its hard-working newsgatherers, it does stand as a reminder of the power and importance of a free press, particularly in ferreting out local corruption and malfeasance.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 95 Alonso Duralde
    Babygirl
    Babygirl is the rare adult drama that understands that complicated characters can be likable, even if their behavior is sometimes decidedly unlikable; it addresses power and gender dynamics in ways that avoid easy, post-#metoo buzzwords; and it’s going to lead to some really interesting post-screening date-night discussions.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 95 Alonso Duralde
    Limbo
    It handles real-life issues from a place of real compassion and understanding without reducing its characters to mere metaphor.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 95 Alonso Duralde
    Barbie
    Gerwig and Baumbach come out on the side of the power of the imagination but never discount the criticisms of this iconic American object. What the film does best, perhaps, is to understand and explain why people make up worlds, be they real systems of oppression or imaginary playsets.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 95 Alonso Duralde
    Their Finest
    Their Finest delivers in a way that would please the Ministry of Information: it’s rousing and emotional, there are laughs and tears, and it portrays people trying and, mostly, succeeding at being their best selves in the service of their country.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 95 Alonso Duralde
    Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
    Unlike the “memberberries” school of nostalgia that can reduce itself to “I had that lunch box!” Linklater gets granular and specific (and thus universal) about his memories and his perceptions of the world at that time.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 95 Alonso Duralde
    The Sisters Brothers
    The Sisters Brothers gallops on screen with a lot of ambitions, and it fulfills them all. It’s a sprawling Western that’s also an intimate character piece; it has moments of wit but also devastating tragedy; it delves into larger themes like the impact of fathers upon sons, and how greed and industrialization lead to environmental devastation, and yet it offers the hope of redemption.
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