Richard Linklater

What makes a Richard Linklater film a Richard Linklater film

Across 22 films, they run somewhat more nostalgia, somewhat less energy and somewhat more cerebral than films in general. Their films resemble each other more than chance would account for, though not unusually so.

The line down the middle is the average film. A bar to the right means more of that reading than films in general, to the left less. Drawn from every film of theirs in the catalogue, not a selection.