Alonso Duralde

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For 805 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 2.7 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 The Identical
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 456 out of 805
  2. Mixed: 216 out of 805
  3. Negative: 133 out of 805
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Alonso Duralde
    Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
    It’s hard to say the name "Captain Underpants” without smiling, and the big-screen debut of the skivvies-clad superhero (the film’s subtitle is “The First Epic Movie”) maintains that same goofy, innocently naughty nature for nearly its entire running time.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Alonso Duralde
    Wonder Woman
    In the recent flood of superhero movies, several have managed to be quite good — but Wonder Woman ranks as one of the few great ones.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Alonso Duralde
    Baywatch
    A summer franchise movie that can’t decide if it wants to be a hard-R bawdy comedy, a d-bag-comes-of-age tale or a fairly unironic reboot of the glossy TV show (which ran from 1989-2001), Baywatch fails at all three, despite the best efforts of the perennially game Johnson and Zac Efron.
    • 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.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Alonso Duralde
    Katie Says Goodbye
    Which version of the film each viewer sees will be a subjective choice, of course, but the fact that the lead character is so utterly guileless and innocent and kindhearted...makes Katie less a victim of the world and more a victim of first time writer-director Wayne Roberts.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 55 Alonso Duralde
    King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
    There are quick cuts and CG imagery and bro-ing out in nearly equal proportions; I found some of this excess to be heady and exciting, but by the end of the film’s running time, it all became a bit tiresome, to say nothing of tiring.
    • 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.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 55 Alonso Duralde
    3 Generations
    It’s a film that positively reeks of good intentions, but it’s so timid and tentative — the words “trans” and “transgender” are never uttered aloud — that it feels as hopelessly retro as casting a cisgender actress in the lead.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Alonso Duralde
    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
    There is wit and there are explosions, and while none of them represent a step above “Guardians of the Galaxy,” neither do they impugn the memory of one of the freshest and most fun of the Marvel movies.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Alonso Duralde
    Graduation
    One of this generation’s most interesting filmmakers still has plenty to say and an impressive dexterity at saying it.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 0 Alonso Duralde
    The Assignment
    The Assignment is reprehensible, yes, but it’s also dull and inept. Fans of Walter Hill should treat his latest effort like the kind of car crash from which it’s best to avert one’s eyes.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 70 Alonso Duralde
    Smurfs: The Lost Village
    Lots of little lessons are interspersed throughout Smurfs: The Lost Village, but the film itself is an example that even the big, powerful, well-paid grown-ups who run movie studios can learn a thing or two.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Alonso Duralde
    Life
    Life never reaches greatness, but it’s solidly good, from its earned scares to a spot-on ending. (Don’t let anyone ruin it for you.) The film’s tight spaces and layered audio will work best on the big screen; see it with someone whose wrist you can grab.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 66 Alonso Duralde
    Saban's Power Rangers
    Power Rangers is baloney through and through, but as baloney goes, it’s better than you might expect. It packs enough zing to make you forgive the origin-story clichés. And the predictable save-the-world stuff. And the insanely ubiquitous product placement.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 55 Alonso Duralde
    The Boss Baby
    There’s so much to like in this movie, but its best qualities are ultimately subsumed in formula. And not the nutritious kind.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 45 Alonso Duralde
    The Last Word
    If nothing else, The Last Word demonstrates that Shirley MacLaine still has the comic chops and screen presence that have made her a Hollywood legend.
    • 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.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Alonso Duralde
    Get Out
    Jordan Peele has made an extraordinary leap in genre here, and he’s also crafted a horror film that has more blistering observations about race than half a dozen well-intentioned Oscar-bait dramas.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 60 Alonso Duralde
    The Great Wall
    If you calibrate your expectations to “monster movie for eight-year-olds,” you may find some fun in this energetic and blissfully brief (a mere 103 minutes!) tale of the Chinese army battling alien beasties in the Song Dynasty era.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Alonso Duralde
    Logan
    Whether or not the “Wolverine” movies have a future — Jackman swears this is his last go-round — Logan is an exceedingly entertaining one.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 45 Alonso Duralde
    Fifty Shades Darker
    It’s nice that the two photogenic leads are treating sex like a pleasurable activity rather than an onerous chore in this second entry, but overall, the film plays like an un-asked-for collaboration between the Hallmark and Playboy Channels.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 25 Alonso Duralde
    A Cure for Wellness
    We get a few effective set pieces early on that provide the requisite scares that A Cure for Wellness so obviously wants to deliver, but the movie just doesn’t know when to quit, lurching onward and growing more and more ludicrous.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 85 Alonso Duralde
    The LEGO Batman Movie
    The Lego Batman Movie, for the most part, very skillfully keeps the wackiness from overwhelming the plot and vice versa. And while the various Bat-vehicles take us through vertiginous zooms on land or through the air, McKay keeps the action rousing but never jumbled.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 90 Alonso Duralde
    I Am Not Your Negro
    No movie is going to fix the world, but films like I Am Not Your Negro demand accountability from its audience, both on a personal level and as a community of human beings.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Alonso Duralde
    The Space Between Us
    It’s hard not to engage in eye-rolling over what already promises to be one of 2017’s worst movies: The Space Between Us spends so much time piling one daffy, laughable plot beat upon another that it never bothers to nail down the characters.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 85 Alonso Duralde
    Dina
    We get lots of films about weddings and about courtship, but this is one that actually takes the time to explore the essence of the marital partnership, and the delicate balance between expressing your own wants and needs while also devoting yourself to fulfilling your partner’s wants and needs.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Alonso Duralde
    Crown Heights
    There’s no denying that the tale of Colin Warner, a man who spent decades behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit, is a powerful one, but writer-director Matt Ruskin doesn’t give us anything here that a documentary couldn’t do better.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 55 Alonso Duralde
    A Dog's Purpose
    A Dog’s Purpose offers many of the highlights of human-canine relations at their warmest and most affectionate, but the film chooses to skim on sun-dappled surfaces (Terry Stacey of “Elvis and Nixon” was the cinematographer) and sentimentality (Rachel Portman’s score bombards the heartstrings) when it might have gone deeper
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