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!

Synchronic (2020)

Synchronic (2020)

New Orleans paramedics and longtime best pals Steve (Anthony Mackie) and Dennis (Jamie Dornan) have seen everything on their rounds. But lately there has been a weird trend of young people overdosing while simultaneously suffering from bizarre wounds like exotic snake bites and impalements from strange knives. As the...

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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Kazakhstani journalist Borat Sagdiyev returns to the U.S. of A. fourteen years after being sent to the gulag for shaming his country. His mission? As an official gift from his country, he is to present America’s most famous ladies’ man, the “Vice Premier” Michael Pence, with...

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The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020)

The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020)

Now, I knew nothing about the self-help book going into this film. I figured this was an adaptation of a schmaltzy romantic novel, where a strong single woman who has worked so hard to keep her family afloat finally meets a good man after previous bad experiences. Turned out,...

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The Glorias (2020)

The Glorias (2020)

Based on Gloria Steinem’s own memoir My Life on the Road, The Glorias painstakingly covers the feminist icon’s life from her childhood in the 1940s to the Women’s March in January 2016. That span of time feels as long as it sounds as portrayed in this biopic, which seems...

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The Secret Garden (2020)

The Secret Garden (2020)

SYNOPSIS: When Mary Lennox’s parents suddenly die, she is sent to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven, on his remote country estate deep in the Yorkshire moors. While exploring, she discovers a hidden magical garden.

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Nocturne (2020)

Nocturne (2020)

As a teen, no one wants to be second fiddle to their sibling, or, in the case of Juliet (Sydney Sweeney), second piano. Juliet and her twin sister Vivian (Madison Iseman) are both senior students at a prestigious performing arts high school, where both excel at classical piano playing....

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Evil Eye (2020)

Evil Eye (2020)

Pallavi (Sunita Mani) is an attractive, unmarried Indian-America woman who is pushing 30, much to the dismay of her superstitious mother Usha (Sarita Choudhury) back in India. Though mother and daughter are extremely close, talking on the phone every day, the fact that Pallavi has not found a nice...

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Black Box (2020)

Black Box (2020)

Nolan (Mamoudou Athie) is a man seemingly lost in his own life. It has been six months since a car accident that killed his wife and left him medically brain-dead. But with a recovery that all deemed miraculous, Nolan survived and woke up, but has lost his memory. His...

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The Lie (2020)

The Lie (2020)

The Lie, despite having the normally gore/horror label Blumhouse attached to it, is a mostly bloodless, slow burn drama. Divorced parents Jay and Rebecca (Peter Sarsgaard and Mireille Enos) are co-parenting their teenage daughter Kayla (Joey King), swapping weekends and errands, and trying their best to remain civil as...

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Kajillionaire (2020)

Kajillionaire (2020)

Delighting in oddballs on the edges of “normal” society, Miranda July returns with Kajillionaire an odd but sweet tale of a trio of scrappy con artists. These folks are always barely getting by, stealing valuable mail then returning it to the rightful owners, hoping for rewards, or entering online contests,...

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Antebellum (2020)

Antebellum (2020)

If we can all agree on anything these days, it is that Janelle Monáe is totally watchable. She does double-duty in the social commentary horror movie with a twist, Antebellum, but alas is not enough to recommend the film. If I could make a recommendation to filmmakers Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz...

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Fatima (2020)

Fatima (2020)

As a non-Catholic, I became familiar with the Miracle at Fatima in college. I was fascinated by this story of a visit by the Virgin Mary in “modern” times that was ultimately witnessed by tens of thousands of people when one day in October 1917, the sun spun and...

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