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Before Sunrise

Richard Linklater, the creator of Slackers and Dazed and Confused, has succeeded where many before him have failed -- in fashioning a modern-day romance that is both original and enthralling. Before Sunrise is nothing short of movie magic, and the...

Run Time: 1:41
U.S. Release Date: 1995-01-27
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations)
Genre: ROMANCE
Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
Before Sunset

Forget Spider-Man's tussle with Doc Ock. Forget Shrek's trek to Far Far Away. And forget Harry Potter's latest attempt to endure the snipes of Snape. For me, the sequel to see during the summer of 2004 is Richard Linklater's Before Sunset, a fol...

Run Time: 1:20
U.S. Release Date: 2004-07-02
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ROMANCE
Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
Boyhood

One thing becomes clear upon watching Boyhood: director Richard Linklater is fascinated by the concept of following a fictional character through real time. Most filmmakers lack the patience to attempt something like this. In spirit, if not in the ...

Run Time: 2:45
U.S. Release Date: 2014-07-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane, ...
Butler, The

Calling Forrest Gump… Calling Forrest Gump… With The Butler, director Lee Daniels has managed to "Gump" the Civil Rights movement. That's not necessarily a bad thing but there are times when so many famous cameos threaten to become a distra...

Run Time: 2:07
U.S. Release Date: 2013-08-16
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Lee Daniels
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, David Oyelowo, ...
Fast Food Nation

The idea underlying Fast Food Nation is intriguing: take the premise of the best-selling non-fiction book by Eric Schlosser and convert it into the backstory of a fictional film. Where director Richard Linklater runs into trouble is in the executi...

Run Time: 1:55
U.S. Release Date: 2006-11-17
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Kris Kristofferson, Ethan Hawke, ...
Paperboy, The

Whatever else it may be cited for, The Paperboy, Lee Daniels' follow-up to Precious, is not going be called "the feel-good movie of 2012." An unsettling period piece mystery (the period being the late 1960s), The Paperboy is steeped in the so-calle...

Run Time: 1:46
U.S. Release Date: 2012-10-05
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Lee Daniels
Cast: Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman, ...
Precious

Precious (saddled with the unwieldy subtitle: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire) manages the task of being both heartbreaking and heart-warming, all without resorting to the kind of manipulation so often evident in dramas about underprivileged ki...

Run Time: 1:49
U.S. Release Date: 2009-11-06
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Lee Daniels
Cast: Gabby Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paul Patton, ...