All 24 Richard Linklater Movies Ranked From Worst to Best

"Linklater is proof that you can write your own screenplays and turn them into gold yourself on the big screen, and he's done this a handful of times. The fact that he's never received the big awards at the Oscars seems insane- but perhaps 2026 might change all that. In the last few months, we've seen two Linklater productions hit our screens; Blue Moon, a wonderful stage-like film set over one night on the opening night of the production of Oklahoma! with Ethan Hawke brilliantly portraying Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart, and Nouvelle Vague; Linklater's take on the making of Jean-Luc Goddard's iconic French New-Wave film, A Bout de souffle (1960).With these two new releases now part of his impressive canon, we take a look back at all his feature films, and access how they stack up."