Every Richard Linklater Movie, Ranked
Updated March 2022 to add Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood.
First emerging during indie cinema's golden age in the early 1990s, Linklater has (with just a few exceptions) stayed true to his indie (and Austin) roots, earning mostly stellar reviews along the way. While only 4 of his films have grossed more than $10 million, all but two of his features received acclaim from critics, making him one of the finest directors of the past 30 years. In the gallery above, we rank every one of his films from worst to best by Metascore.
Adapting the popular 2012 novel of the same name by Maria Semple, Linklater's most recent film stars Cate Blanchett as the titular Bernadette, a Seattle architect who mysteriously vanishes just prior to a family vacation. It falls to her precocious teenage daughter Bee (Emma Nelson) to investigate. Billy Crudup, Kristen Wiig, James Urbaniak, Judy Greer, and Laurence Fishburne also star in the dramedy, which is Linklater's first outright dud in his storied career.
“It’s the kind of adaptation that is so misjudged that you end up struggling to see why anyone thought it a good idea to adapt in the first place.” —Benjamin Lee, The Guardian
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