Richard Linklater
Movie Review: Blue Moon
4 stars out of 5 That I went to see Blue Moon in the theater shows two things: One, that I trust Richard Linklater as a filmmaker and two, that I’ve come a long way in my reappreciation of Ethan Hawke. (It was Linklater’s 2014 opus Boyhood which in fact ended my quarter-century Hawke boycott.) […]
Movie Review: Everybody Wants Some!!
3.5 stars out of 5 Richard Linklater spent 12 years making this movie… oh wait, it wasn’t this one? Never mind. I feel like I’ve seen enough Linklater offerings at this point to say — at least in my own opinion — he’s not a fantastic filmmaker. But, you know what, he’s pretty good. And […]
Movie Review: Boyhood
4 stars out of 5 I haven’t seen a movie with Ethan Hawke in it since 1989. He and I have a complicated history. But when I heard all the amazing buzz about the movie Boyhood, I figured the quarter-century boycott would finally come to an end. I am glad it did. This is an […]
Movie Review: Bernie
3.5 stars out of 5 I don’t rush out to see Richard Linklater movies. It’s collateral damage as my Ethan Hawke boycott carries on. Still, Linklater and I go way back. The summer I graduated from college, his Slacker came out, which sort of defined my generation (and was set in Austin before Austin was […]
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