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!

Crazy Rich Asians (2019)

Crazy Rich Asians (2019)

Rachel Chu (Constance Wu), is a university professor in New York, a successful independent woman with a gorgeous boyfriend named Nick Young (Henry Golding). Things get serious when Nick invites Rachel to Singapore to go to a wedding… and, more importantly, to meet his family. Her man has always...

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Puzzle (2018)

Puzzle (2018)

Lately at work, my company has been leaving puzzles in the break area next to the coffee machines. Many people simply ignore the pile of pieces on the table, but there is a contingency of folks that are quietly drawn to it, seeing the hundreds if not thousands of...

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Rocketman (2019)

Rocketman (2019)

This film chronicles a flamboyant, iconic singer from his meteoric rise to superstardom in the 1970s, to hitting rock bottom from sex and drugs and rock and roll, to his triumphant comeback in the mid-1980s. Wait, is this Bohemian Rhapsody? No, this time instead Queen’s Freddie Mercury, it’s a musical...

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The Invisibles (Die Unsichtbaren) (2017)

The Invisibles (Die Unsichtbaren) (2017)

Though there are countless dramas of Jewish people hiding in Europe during World War II, The Invisibles focuses on a select group that many (including myself) may not know about. At one point in 1943, Joseph Goebbels famously declared the Nazi capital of Berlin completely free of Jews. But...

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Beautiful Boy (2018)

Beautiful Boy (2018)

In Beautiful Boy, a white, educated, liberal family finds themselves reeling as their “beautiful boy” perfect son throws all of his privilege out the windows and spirals into hard drug use. In the great teaser trailer for the film, you see the desperate and frustrated father David (Steve Carrell)...

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Greta (2018)

Greta (2018)

As you can see in the trailer, which literally gives away the entire film, Frances (Chloë Grace Moretz) is a lonely young woman in New York City, living with her BFF Erica in a fancy loft. Frances has apparently just lost her mother, but this is just told to...

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First Man (2018)

First Man (2018)

The thrilling and teeth-rattling opening sequence of First Man shows a test pilot in 1961 as he flies up to 140,000 feet, then almost doesn’t make it back. No, his plane doesn’t explode at that altitude, it just threatens to “bounce off the atmosphere”, hurling him out to space....

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The Happytime Murders (2018)

The Happytime Murders (2018)

If you haven’t seen the red-band trailer for The Happytime Murders, well, just take a look below. I’ll just wait over here. Now that you can’t un-see the ejaculating puppet, let me point out that that is the most brain-melting moment in the film. If you can handle that...

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The Sisters Brothers (2018)

The Sisters Brothers (2018)

The opening sequence of The Sisters Brothers is visually striking in what you cannot see. In the distance, flashes of gunfire light up complete darkness. You make out that some gunfighters are on the porch of a house, the rest are hiding in the bush. As bodies drop, the...

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Aquaman (2018)

Aquaman (2018)

[Executive speaks, dominating the meeting] Aquaman has been kind of a joke in the superhero world, so we need to reclaim him, and, you know, make him AWESOME. We need to get a beefy, manly guy, you know, no more blond wussy guy in spandex. Be sure he is...

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Life Itself (2018)

Life Itself (2018)

Remember when that certain type of commercial first debuted a dozen or so years ago? It would have a thoughtful yet warm voice over, shots of regular people doing regular things. Maybe one was lonely, one was giving birth, one had aching joints, and another had a long shift...

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Colette (2018)

Colette (2018)

In my 20s, I was backpacking through Europe, and made a stop to check out Paris’ Père Lachaise Cemetery, burial ground of a great many famous folks. You’d see teens crowded around Jim Morrison’s grave, or people leaving lipstick marks on Oscar Wilde’s tomb, or laying flowers for Edith...

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