Alonso Duralde (born May 18, 1967) is an American film critic, author, and podcaster. He has been a writer and editor for 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. He attended Vanderbilt University and 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 now identifies as an atheist. In January 2010, Duralde was a contestant on Jeopardy!. 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. His writing has appeared in The Village Voice, Movieline, and Detour. From 2011 to 2023, Duralde was the senior film critic for The Wrap, which also synidcated 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. 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 Bibliography References External links Alonso Duralde's Rotten Tomatoes page Linoleum Knife podcast 1967 births Living people 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers American atheists American film critics American male non-fiction writers American people of Spanish descent American podcasters California socialists American gay writers Jeopardy! contestants LGBT people from Georgia (U.S. state) Former Roman Catholics People from East Point, Georgia People from West Hollywood, California Vanderbilt University alumni Writers from Georgia (U.S. state) The Young Turks people