Alonso Duralde

Early life

Duralde was born in East Point, Georgia, the youngest of seven children born to Spanish immigrants. He attended Vanderbilt University.

Career

He was the artistic director at the USA Film Festival/Dallas for five years. He was also the former arts and entertainment editor at the national gay and lesbian magazine The Advocate. In 2007, he became the film critic for MSNBC.com, and in 2009, his reviews began appearing regularly on The Rotten Tomatoes Show.

Duralde is a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Society of Film Critics. His writing has appeared in The Village Voice, Movieline, and Detour.

In January 2010, Duralde was a contestant on Jeopardy!

From 2011 to 2023, Duralde was the senior film critic for The Wrap, which also syndicated his reviews to the Reuters wire. He also co-hosted the TYT Network program What the Flick?! alongside Ben Mankiewicz of Turner Classic Movies, Christy Lemire of The Associated Press and Matt Atchity of Rotten Tomatoes. After What the Flick?! was cancelled, he and Lemire began hosting the film podcast Breakfast All Day.

In 2023, Duralde joined the website The Film Verdict as its chief U.S. film critic.

Preferences

Best films of the year

• 2011: Weekend
• 2012: How to Survive a Plague
• 2013: Frances Ha
• 2014: Boyhood
• 2015: Mad Max: Fury Road
• 2016: Moonlight
• 2017: Call Me by Your Name
• 2018: Paddington 2
• 2019: Little Women
• 2020: Collective
• 2021: Licorice Pizza
• 2022: RRR
• 2023: Poor Things
• 2024: Hundreds of Beavers

Personal life

Duralde currently lives in West Hollywood, California with his husband, fellow writer and film critic Dave White. They co-host the podcast Linoleum Knife, which began in late 2010. He was raised Catholic, but identifies as an atheist.

Work

Filmography

Film

Television

Audio

Bibliography

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References

References

1. "Alonso Duralde".
2. Seitz, Matt Zoller. (January 28, 2006). "The Bear Necessities: An Interview with Alonso Duralde, Part One".
3. "J! Archive - Alonso Duralde".
4. (January 11, 2010). "J! Archive: Show #5831 - Monday, January 11, 2010".
5. Lemire, Christy. (November 13, 2020). "Breakfast All Day Podcast 11/13/20".
6. Alonso Duralde. (February 23, 2023). "In other news, after 12 years at the site, this is my last review for [The Wrap]. I'll be spending a few months finishing my next book, and then after that - watch this space.".
7. "Breakfast All Day Podcast Archives".
8. (April 19, 2023). "Alonso Duralde Joins 'The Film Verdict' as Chief U.S. Film Critic".
9. Lemire, Christy. (January 2, 2020). "Breakfast All Day Podcast 1/2/20".
10. Lemire, Christy. (January 8, 2021). "Breakfast All Day Podcast 1/8/21".
11. Lemire, Christy. (January 7, 2022). "Breakfast All Day Podcast 1/7/22".
12. (December 20, 2022). "The 10 Best Films of 2022, from 'EO' to 'RRR'".
13. (December 20, 2024). ""Alonso Duralde's Top 11 Films of 2024".
14. "AlonsoDuralde.com > About Alonso".