The Best Films of 2025
Like life itself in these times the visceral, the absurd, and the morbid all take their rightful place in our eclectic compilation of Best Films 2025.
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Berlinale Part 3: The Best Films You Usually Don’t See Coming
After 10 days of fanfare and celebrity mayhem, the 75th edition of the Berlinale closes with some poignant, idiosyncratic releases from directors Richard Linklater and Radu Jude.
Nostalgia for the Downtown Slacker: Bertoglio’s ‘Downtown 81’ and Linklater’s ‘Slacker’
Bertoglio’s Downtown 81 and Linklater’s Slacker showcase blissfully aimless, anarchic souls discretely or overtly spurning a predictable, soulless society.
The Difference Between Truth and Honesty: Director Richard Linklater on ‘Last Flag Flying’
"Little lies. It's social lubrication," says Linklater, "verbal alcohol, so that we can all kind of get along."
2017 Fall Film Preview: At Last, the Film Industry Awakens From Its Slumber
From Gary Oldman in The Darkest Hour to James Franco's meta-experiment Blade Runner: 2049 and Daniel Day-Lewis's final role, here are the movies you'll want to watch ... and a couple you might not.
Linklater’s “Before” Trilogy Is About So Much More Than Romantic Love
Across three films and 18 years, the characters of Jesse and Céline have endured in the hearts of cinephiles everywhere, but their journey remains more complex than you remembered.
The Best Films of 2016
PopMatters presents a list of the best films that surfaced in 2016 and impressed us with their cinematic visions of where we’ve been.
‘Everybody Wants Some!!’ Is a Crash Course of Self-discovery and Independence
Richard Linklater's spiritual sequel to Dazed and Confused hits the '80s with a little education and a lot of partying: self-discovery lies somewhere between.
Defining Spiritual Sequel in ‘Everybody Wants Some!!’
The powerful timing of Richard Linklater’s take on '80s competitiveness in Everybody Wants Some!!
Still Life: The Portrait of Time in ‘Boyhood’
Boyhood sets itself the daunting task of reflecting the breadth of a human adolescence, but it instead reveals that it is in life's minutia that we find the most meaning.
Remember Death: Passage of Time Through Linklater’s Lens
Richard Linklater's Before trilogy is a rare work of cinema that lives up to the true spirit of memento mori: remembering that we all will die.
The 20 Most Anticipated Films of 2015
Over the next 12 months, we will be bombarded with all manner of proposed cinematic spectacle. Here are the 20 films we are most looking forward to.