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!

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025)

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025)

In A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, there’s an underlying assumption that everyone—certainly everyone who shows up at a wedding—should be coupled up. David (Colin Farrell) and Sarah (Margot Robbie) show up as singletons to a wedding, and the film (metaphorically) rubs them together like flint, confident that there will...

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Freakier Friday (2025)

Freakier Friday (2025)

Set 22 years after the 2003 hit comedy Freaky Friday, Freakier Friday plops us back into the lives of mom-and-daughter duo Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Anna (Lindsay Lohan). We are given a very truncated summary of what their fictional selves have been up to: Anna is a “single...

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Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)

Avatar: Fire and Ash teases lots of flames

Hold onto your mountain banshee! When first full trailer for James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash exploded onto Comic Con last week, Disney was smart to release it online ASAP. With this third Avatar film, Cameron has added a new element to the mix… Fire and Ash introduces volcanoes,...

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The Fantastic Four: First Steps

The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

Welp, here we go again. For the past couple decades, Marvel has painstakingly attempted to reboot and relaunch the Fantastic Four on the big screen, with new casts and new films coming every 10 years. This third adaptation, starring some of the most charming and talented folks around, still...

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Superman (2025)

Superman (2025)

The character of Superman has always been an earnest do-gooder. The guy is not just pretty (eyeball-meltingly pretty), but he’s relatable, growing up as an outsider (he is, after all, an actual alien), despite the support of his small-town Kansas adoptive parents. But for the last dozen years or...

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40 Acres (2025)

40 Acres (2025)

As much as I love me some good post-apocalyptic storytelling, whether it be zombies or spores or meteors causing the end of society as we know it, the dystopian horror theme that truly shakes my core is when humans brutally turn on humans to survive. 40 Acres imagines a...

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Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025)

Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025)

Early on in Jurassic World: Rebirth (aka Jurassic Park VII), we meet perhaps the most boring family ever—a dad, his two daughters, and the older girl’s pothead boyfriend—sailing across the Atlantic. After they all squabble for an excruciatingly long time about whose turn it is to take the wheel,...

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Downton Abbey: The Grande Finale (2025)

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale promises this time for real

Oh, man, I’m a sucker for Downton Abbey. I swear, if they release a new chapter every decade, I’ll be watching until the Crawleys are all gone and Downton is filled with social media influencers and all their drama. OK, well, maybe not then… but I do fantasize that...

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Scene from Project Hail Mary starring Ryan Gosling

Ryan Gosling puts the “not” in “astronaut” in Project Hail Mary

Ryan Gosling puts the “not” in “astronaut” in the new trailer for Project Hail Mary, based on the best-selling novel by Andy Weir (The Martian). Personally, as one who doesn’t know the story, I think this trailer could have and should have ended about 3/4ths the way through (spoilers!)....

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F1: The Movie (2025)

F1: The Movie (2025)

In 2022, director Joseph Kosinski brought us the sequel we never knew we needed: Top Gun: Maverick. It was easily one of my favorite movies of the year (I may have even cried as soon as I heard the familiar score in the opening credits). When I heard Kosinski’s...

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Elio (2025)

Elio (2025)

Elio (Yonas Kibreab) can’t seem to fit in since his parents died. He butts heads with his Aunt Olga (Zoe Saldaña), a harried military officer who is doing the best she can to connect with the kid, and his attempts at making friends ends up with bullying. As a...

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Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen in Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.

Jeremy Allen White is The Boss in trailer for Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

Bruce Springsteen is the latest iconic singer to get the big-screen biopic treatment, and the first peek at super-hot Jeremy Allen White as The Boss has just been released. 20th Century Studios’ Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere chronicles the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 “Nebraska” album, a raw, haunted...

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