Director Richard Linklater returns with a film over a decade in the making

Richard Linklater

Richard Linklater is many things — a visionary, an auteur, a slacker-poet fixated on the past, one of the most eclectic filmmakers of his generation. The director’s long-in-the works opus, Boyhood, was released last week.

Warren Zhang has a review of the 12-year labor of love:

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And, as a primer to Linklater newcomers, Jon Raeder has the highlights of the director’s diverse — yet distinctive — resume: 

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