Ranking Every Richard Linklater Film Worst To Best

Featuring the same stylish animation as A Scanner Darkly, Linklater's Waking Life is one of his most experimental and thoughtful creations, a film made up of loosely connected tales about philosophy, existentialism, and dreams.

Like A Scanner Darkly, Waking Life's strange and dream-like imagery creates a spectacle that is often tough to look away from, drawing you in with its beautiful and unique strangeness. Under the surface, the film itself features some striking ideas about love, life, the future, free will and consciousness.

Linklater works best when dealing with people - their dialogue, the way they interact, the way we all think and ponder on things that, as a whole, have no real explanation or way to be understood. In Waking Life, the director is on full-form, creating a striking and deeply affecting series of philosophical musings without coming off too pretentious or off-putting. A hard line to walk, but one Linklater does all the same.