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'Maddie's Secret' won't be one for long — it's the indie arrival of the year
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- Sometimes a movie’s conception of a character can be so spot-on — so gloriously accurate and emotionally true — it can carry you beyond mere plot and deliver you to a place of pure recognition: I know her.
- Early loves his creation, enough to spin an entire psychodrama around her, one that will bring her high and low.
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Sometimes a movie’s conception of a character can be so spot-on — so gloriously accurate and emotionally true — it can carry you beyond mere plot and deliver you to a place of pure recognition: I know her. So it is with Maddie, an extremely online Los Angeles striver, blond tendrils of hair hanging in her face along with the need, deep in her eyes, to become a food influencer. You can hear it in the way she pronounces tortang talong or yuzu kosho crisp. This is a person who squeals when unboxing her favorite condiments (Fly by Jing, if you must know).
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