Alonso Duralde
Template:Short description Template:BLP sources Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main otherScript error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Alonso Ampuero Duralde (born May 18, 1967)[1] is an American film critic, author, and podcaster. He has been a writer and editor for The Film Verdict, The Wrap, The Advocate and MSNBC.com.
Personal life
Duralde was born in East Point, Georgia, the youngest of seven children born to Spanish immigrants.[2] He attended Vanderbilt University and currentlyTemplate:When lives in West Hollywood, California with his husband, fellow writer and film critic Dave White.[3] They co-host the podcast Linoleum Knife, which began in late 2010. He was raised Catholic, but identifies as an atheist.
In January 2010, Duralde was a contestant on Jeopardy![4][5][6]
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.
From 2011 to 2023, Duralde was the senior film critic for The Wrap,[7] 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.[8]
In 2023, Duralde joined the website The Film Verdict as its chief U.S. film critic.[9]
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[10]
- 2020: Collective[11]
- 2021: Licorice Pizza[12]
- 2022: RRR[13]
- 2023: Poor Things
- 2024: Hundreds of Beavers[14]
Bibliography
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References
External links
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