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What is the best Richard Linklater movie?

By YPB Team

One director, three decades, and a filmography that swings from a twelve-year experiment to a rock comedy for kids. Ranking it is the hard part.

  1. Boyhood — ranked #11
    Boyhood
    A coming-of-age drama shot with the same cast over twelve years.
    1000pts
  2. Before Sunrise — ranked #22
    Before Sunrise
    Two strangers meet on a train and spend one night walking Vienna.
    763pts
  3. Everybody Wants Some!! — ranked #33
    Everybody Wants Some!!
    A 1980 college baseball weekend, billed as a spiritual sequel to Dazed and Confused.
    728pts
  4. Waking Life — ranked #44
    Waking Life
    A rotoscoped dream about consciousness and free will.
    624pts
  5. A Scanner Darkly — ranked #55
    A Scanner Darkly
    A rotoscoped Philip K. Dick adaptation about narcotics and identity.
    560pts
  6. Hit Man — ranked #66
    Hit Man
    A professor moonlighting as a fake contract killer falls for a client.
    485pts
  7. SubUrbia — ranked #77
    SubUrbia
    A 1996 adaptation of Eric Bogosian's play about friends outside a convenience store.
    485pts
  8. Slacker — ranked #88
    Slacker
    Linklater's 1990 debut, drifting between Austin characters for a day.
    485pts
  9. Apollo 10 1/2 — ranked #99
    Apollo 10 1/2
    An animated memory of growing up in Houston during the moon landing.
    485pts
  10. Tape — ranked #1010
    Tape
    Three people, one motel room, shot on digital video in real time.
    397pts
  11. Before Sunset — ranked #1111
    Before Sunset
    The 2004 sequel, reuniting the pair nine years later in Paris.
    397pts
  12. Before Midnight — ranked #1212
    Before Midnight
    The 2013 closing chapter, set during a Greek holiday.
    397pts
  13. Last Flag Flying — ranked #1313
    Last Flag Flying
    Three Vietnam veterans reunite to bury one man's son.
    397pts
  14. Fast Food Nation — ranked #1414
    Fast Food Nation
    A fictional companion to Eric Schlosser's book on the meat industry.
    397pts
  15. The Newton Boys — ranked #1515
    The Newton Boys
    A 1998 period piece about four bank-robbing brothers from Texas.
    397pts
  16. School of Rock — ranked #1616
    School of Rock
    Jack Black as a failed guitarist who fakes his way into teaching.
    291pts
  17. Dazed and Confused — ranked #1717
    Dazed and Confused
    A 1993 ensemble comedy about the last day of school in 1976 Texas.
    0pts
  18. Me and Orson Welles — ranked #1818
    Me and Orson Welles
    A teenager talks his way into Welles's 1937 Mercury Theatre.
    0pts
  19. Bernie — ranked #1919
    Bernie
    Jack Black as an East Texas mortician in a true-crime comedy.
    0pts
  20. Bad News Bears — ranked #2020
    Bad News Bears
    A 2005 remake with Billy Bob Thornton coaching a hopeless little-league team.
    0pts

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