Alonso Duralde

Alonso Duralde The Film Verdict Oct 23, 2026 Watkins mounts some memorably terrifying (and squishy) moments, particularly a sequence in a turbulence-tossed airplane in which Matt attempts to cut apart his eyelids with some tiny but very sharp scissors. (Somewhere, Buñuel and Dalí are smiling.) Go to Full Review Clayface (2026) 75% - -

Alonso Duralde The Film Verdict Oct 15, 2026 This year’s Resident Evil and Mortal Kombat 2 proved that video-games can be given new life on the big screen, mixing thrills, action, humor, and self-awareness. Street Fighter assembles those elements but never lands on a formula that functions. Go to Full Review Street Fighter (2026) 41% - -

Alonso Duralde The Film Verdict Oct 9, 2026 It’s disappointing enough that the movie has filched so many of its good ideas from elsewhere, and even worse that it’s picked up some bad ones along the way. Go to Full Review Other Mommy (2026) 19% - -

Alonso Duralde The Film Verdict Oct 7, 2026 The greatest flaw of The Social Reckoning is that David Fincher isn’t directing, but its greatest strength is Sorkin’s script, which the writer directs with greater competence and energy than earlier behind-the-camera efforts. Go to Full Review The Social Reckoning (2026) 54% - -

Alonso Duralde The Film Verdict Sep 29, 2026 Where legendary film director Ernst Lubitsch was famous for his "touch," Iñárritu’s aesthetic style is more akin to a Godzilla-sized stomp. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

Alonso Duralde The Film Verdict Sep 23, 2026 There’s a lovely central story about two lifelong best friends, and the movie buries that story in so much plot, mythology, magical creatures, and mini-quests that it dares viewers not to lose the thread. Go to Full Review Forgotten Island (2026) 95% - -

Alonso Duralde The Film Verdict Sep 22, 2026 Ayer and Alexander aren’t reinventing the wheel when it comes to survival tales, but they do so with unsparing efficacy, delivering moments of both suspense and compassion. Go to Full Review Heart of the Beast (2026) 85% - -

Alonso Duralde Press Play (KCRW) Sep 20, 2026 The storytelling is beautifully done here -- it's so much about the push-pull between the rural and the urban, modernity and tradition. Go to Full Review The Condor Daughter (2025) 100% - -

Alonso Duralde The Film Verdict Sep 16, 2026 Like Hannah Einbinder in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, hired to breathe life into "zombie IP," Cregger brings his trademark horror-comedy combo to the goings-on at the Umbrella Corporation. Go to Full Review Resident Evil (2026) 96% - -

Alonso Duralde The Film Verdict Sep 8, 2026 The finished product shares many of the original film’s flaws, from careening shifts in tone to not enough screen time for Stockard Channing and Dianne Weist as Sally and Gillian’s wise, eccentric aunts. Go to Full Review Practical Magic 2 (2026) 36% - -

Alonso Duralde Press Play (KCRW) Sep 1, 2026 The human brain can hear a term like "hospital bombing" and push it aside, but it's very different when you see it happening, when the camera is inside the hospital and you see the results. Go to Full Review American Doctor (2026) 100% - -

Alonso Duralde The Film Verdict Aug 31, 2026 Wingard and Barrett are clearly going for gut-bucket grindhouse here, but even by those particular standards, Onslaught arrives as a particularly loathsome bucket of guts. Go to Full Review Onslaught (2026) 60% - -

Alonso Duralde The Film Verdict Aug 26, 2026 For all the style that director Ridley Scott can muster — and, admittedly, that’s a whole lot of style — The Dog Stars serves up a post-apocalypse with a heavy sense of familiarity. Go to Full Review The Dog Stars (2026) 41% - -

Alonso Duralde Press Play (KCRW) Aug 23, 2026 This is how you do a biopic. Go to Full Review Franz (2025) 75% - -

Alonso Duralde The Film Verdict Aug 19, 2026 Chase finds organic ways to set up his scary set pieces, whether it’s the dentist’s office where Gemma works or a claustrophobic maze-like scene that coincidentally resembles a recent horror hit about endless spaces. Go to Full Review Insidious: Out of the Further (2026) 58% - -

Alonso Duralde The Film Verdict Aug 12, 2026 Amid the pervasive wackiness, which never gets tiresome, Burch skillfully weaves in both a legitimate mystery (its real-life ramifications bring to mind another Todd Haynes film, Dark Waters) and some genuine character moments. Go to Full Review Coyote vs. Acme (2026) 96% - -

Alonso Duralde The Film Verdict Aug 12, 2026 Isn’t a particularly good movie unto itself, but it contains the making of three or four potentially interesting ones of wildly varying genres. Go to Full Review The End of Oak Street (2026) 86% - -

Alonso Duralde Maximum Film! Aug 11, 2026 It's a lovely indie, insightful about aging and changing life directions. It's about, and an example of, what actors should do: if you're not getting the good roles, write one for yourself. Go to Full Review The Addiction of Hope (2025) 100% - -

Alonso Duralde Breakfast All Day Aug 7, 2026 This is a weirdly, creepily, conservative anti-sex movie masquerading as a saucy rom-com. Go to Full Review One Night Only (2026) 44% - -

Alonso Duralde Breakfast All Day Aug 6, 2026 8/10 Even if you're not a fan of 80s music, just the cultural viewpoint of this film -- the way it represents how China was then, and how do you put on a rock concert for people who can't clap along? -- is fascinating. Go to Full Review WHAM! 10 Days in China (2026) 100% - -