Richard Linklater career
Richard Linklater averages 7.00 across 24 rated films as a director, with Before Sunrise on top at 8.1.
Average
7.00
24 rated films
Best rated
8.1
Before Sunrise
Peak five
7.28
2011 to 2017
7+ run
4 films
2001 to 2004
Dot size shows IMDb votes. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes sit on the baseline.
 Nouvelle Vague | 2025 | 7.3 | 12,441 |
 Blue Moon | 2025 | 6.8 | 26,537 |
 Hit Man | 2023 | 6.8 | 135K |
 Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood | 2022 | 7.2 | 13,723 |
 Where'd You Go, Bernadette | 2019 | 6.5 | 28,134 |
 Last Flag Flying | 2017 | 6.9 | 31,170 |
 Everybody Wants Some!! | 2016 | 6.9 | 65,026 |
 Boyhood | 2014 | 7.9 | 384K |
 Before Midnight | 2013 | 7.9 | 189K |
 Bernie | 2011 | 6.8 | 67,774 |
 Me and Orson Welles | 2008 | 6.7 | 12,410 |
 Fast Food Nation | 2006 | 6.3 | 26,250 |
 A Scanner Darkly | 2006 | 7.0 | 123K |
 Bad News Bears | 2005 | 5.8 | 24,811 |
 Before Sunset | 2004 | 8.1 | 320K |
 School of Rock | 2003 | 7.2 | 363K |
 Tape | 2001 | 7.2 | 22,461 |
 Waking Life | 2001 | 7.6 | 70,018 |
 The Newton Boys | 1998 | 6.1 | 13,338 |
 SubUrbia | 1996 | 6.7 | 11,995 |
 Before Sunrise | 1995 | 8.1 | 385K |
 Dazed and Confused | 1993 | 7.6 | 219K |
 Slacker | 1990 | 7.0 | 25,769 |
| It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books | 1988 | 5.5 | 1,133 |
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