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.
Linklater's most commercial—and thus highest-grossing, by a huge margin—film to date, this 2003 comedy (written by Mike White) stars a perfectly cast Jack Black as a rock guitarist who is kicked out of his band and finds himself posing as a substitute teacher at a prep school, where he enlists a group of fifth graders to form a new band. The film's success led to spinoffs for television (on Nickelodeon) and on the stage (in an Andrew Lloyd Webber-penned musical).
“An exuberant, raucous and thoroughly endearing comedy.” —Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
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