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Alonso Duralde is Chief US Film Critic for The Film Verdict, author of Hollywood Pride, 101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men, Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas, and coauthor of I’ll Be Home for Christmas Movies. He is the cohost of the Linoleum Knife, Maximum Film!, The Film Library: A Kanopy Podcast, and Breakfast All Day podcasts, and has dis­cussed film on CNN, PBS, TCM, and ABC, as well as in numerous documentaries.

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Disclosure Day - The Film Verdict

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By Alonso Duralde 
| TFV Network
But Disclosure Day has none of these — this embarrassing moment features Colin Firth and Josh O’Connor performing dialogue by David Koepp under the guidance of Steven Spielberg. Which only proves that even the GOATs can whiff it sometimes. That sensation of déjà vu with diminishing returns permeates the whole of Disclosure Day, which feels like a tour of tropes that Spielberg has tackled with greater skill and sensitivity earlier in his illustrious career.
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Scary Movie - The Film Verdict

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By Alonso Duralde 
| TFV Network
After the requisite opening sequence involving a famous person — and the famous person in question carries it off with such wit and style that expectations for the rest of the movie are unfairly raised — we cut to Tuesday (Savannah Lee Nassif, styled to look like the lead in Wednesday — get it?) getting stabbed by Ghostface, prompting the return of her pill-popping sister Sara (Olivia Rose Keegan, Gotham Knights) and Sara’s definitely-a-suspect boyfriend Jack (Cameron Scott Robert, Chicago...
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Backrooms - The Film Verdict

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By Alonso Duralde 
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Granted, even the film’s “real” world of 1990 is off-putting enough, particularly since one of the main settings is a cut-rate furniture store that seems to specialize in the cheapest, tackiest, and most hideous living-room sets imaginable.
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