Richard Linklater

Beautiful if hagiographic portrait of Godard

31 January 2026 9:00 am

Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague dramatises the (chaotic) making of Breathless (1960), Jean-Luc Godard’s French New Wave classic. It’s a film…

Minor Linklater but fun: Hit Man reviewed

8 June 2024 9:00 am

Richard Linklater’s Hit Man is a minor Linklater but a minor Linklater is still an event. Also, after all those…

Blake Jenner as Jake and Zoey Deutch as Beverly in ‘Everybody Wants Some!!’

The male gaze

14 May 2016 9:00 am

Everybody Wants Some!! is a comedy written and directed by Richard Linklater, which is the good news, but it’s set…

How J-Lo can you go?

28 February 2015 9:00 am

Stateside critics, who panned Jennifer Lopez’s new film The Boy Next Door on its US release last month, may be…

Naturalistic: Ellar Coltrane and Ethan Hawke as Mason, junior and senior

Stuff happens

12 July 2014 9:00 am

Richard Linklater’s observational chronicle, Boyhood, was 12 years in the making and is 166 minutes long — that’s nearly three…