Reviews by Linda

I'm the founder of Moviepie.com where I've written reviews for over two (!) decades. I'm a member of the Seattle Film Critics Society (SFCS) since 2022 and GALECA (the Society of LGBTQ+ Entertainment Critics Association) since 2025. I'm based in the Seattle area. My favorite films include Gone With the Wind, Purple Rain, and A Room With a View. I have a fondness for what I call "space stories" and movies with talking animals. I don't believe there is such a thing as a guilty pleasure movie. Own what you love!

Civil War (2024)

Civil War (2024)

The story arc of Civil War is super-simple: A carload of war journalists (led by a weary, haunted Kirsten Dunst) needs to get from point A to point B so they can interview the leader of one side of the conflict before the opposing side gets to him first...

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The First Omen (2024)

The First Omen (2024)

From the mood-setting opening scene featuring Charles Dance’s guilt-ridden priest getting an efficient, bloody comeuppance, I felt like my face went through a progressive range of emotions during The First Omen, settling mainly between 😲 and 😱. As the plot involves a renegade Catholic cult’s goal of birthing the...

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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)

Part of the fun of the latest reboots of Godzilla and friends (starting with Gareth Edwards’ 2014 film) has been the surprising earnestness despite the outrageous premise: There have always been giant beasties known as Titans lurking on (or inside) our planet, but it’s humans’ own darn fault that...

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Late Night With the Devil (2024)

Late Night With the Devil (2023)

I love the setup of Late Night With the Devil. Portrayed as a solemn, late-70s contemporary documentary, the film’s POV uses “original footage” of a long-lost episode of late night TV that caused shock and sensation to live viewers in 1977. In the days before the internet and even...

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Love Lies Bleeding (2024)

Love Lies Bleeding (2024)

Lou (Kristen Stewart) is bored at her literally shitty job, stuck cleaning clogged toilets yet again at the gym she manages. The place reeks of sweat and self-absorption, where body builders peddle steroids to bulk up and self-improvement dreams go to die. That is until gorgeous Jackie (Katy O’Brian)...

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Arthur the King (2024)

Arthur the King (2024)

Now, I’ve never heard of the Adventure Racing World Championship, but in our world of reality games where people push themselves to physical, gastronomical, and romantic extremes in order to win money, the gist of it doesn’t really surprise me: Teams of endurance athletes compete via trail running, biking,...

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Oppenheimer, winner of Best Picture

2024 Oscar Nominees and Winners: The Full List

March 11, 2024–Early critics’ awards seemed to predict an exciting, unpredictable Oscars. But in the major awards leading up to the big night, the major awards (with the exception of Best Actress), were pretty much locked in place. Oppenheimer and Poor Things had the biggest hauls, garnering statues for...

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Pachyderme by Stéphanie Clément

How to watch some of the 2024 Oscar-nominated shorts online

If you are lucky enough and live near the right theater chain, you can see some of the Oscar-nominated short films at special screenings before the big night. But did you know that some are available streaming online right now? Short films, whether animated, narrative, or documentary, often get...

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Kevin Costner in Horizon: An American Saga

Kevin Costner returns to the OLD West with the epic Horizon: An American Saga

After spending several seasons in the New West of the mega-hit series Yellowstone, Kevin Costner dropped out to return to filmmaking… more specifically a project that has been simmering with him for decades. His epic Horizon: An America Saga promises to be a four-film series, with the first two...

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Drive-Away Dolls (2024)

Drive-Away Dolls (2024)

The Coen Brothers, even with their occasional misfires, are a magic moviemaking duo. But in Ethan Coen’s solo directorial debut, adapting a screenplay by his wife Tricia Cooke, he is sorely missing his other filmmaking half. Drive-Away Dolls gives nods to many, much more successful films from the Coen...

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Bob Marley: One Love (2024)

Bob Marley: One Love (2024)

Made with full support of Bob Marley’s family, One Love shimmers with love and adoration toward the reggae icon who left the world too soon. But if you don’t know much about the superstar who left an indelible stamp on music (Marley passed away in 1981 at age 36),...

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Jaafar Jackson as Michael Jackson

First image of Jaafar Jackson as Michael Jackson in upcoming biopic

If you had to do a double-take at this first image from the anticipated Michael Jackson biopic Michael, you are not the only one. In a move that is both brilliant and almost uncomfortably too close to the source, Michael Jackson will be played by his own nephew, Jaafar...

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