If cinema is the art of time, Linklater is one of its most thoughtful and engaged directors. Unlike other filmmakers identified as auteurs, Linklater’s distinction is not found on the surface of his films, in a visual style or signature shot, but rather in their DNA, as ongoing conversations with cinema, which is to say, with time itself. A visual essay produced by Sight and Sound.

We Cry Together
2022
6.0/10

Inception
2010
8.4/10

The Suicide Squad
2021
7.5/10

Enola Holmes
2020
7.2/10

Joker
2019
8.1/10

Oppenheimer
2023
8.0/10

Incredibles 2
2018
7.5/10

Love and Monsters
2020
7.3/10

Spider-Man: Far From Home
2019
7.4/10

Toy Story 4
2019
7.5/10

Mulan
2020
6.8/10

Locked Down
2021
5.2/10

The Circle
2017
5.5/10

The House with a Clock in Its Walls
2018
6.3/10

Extraction
2020
7.3/10

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
2020
6.9/10

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2019
6.3/10

Ant-Man and the Wasp
2018
6.9/10

Fantasy Island
2020
5.8/10

Kong: Skull Island
2017
6.5/10
James Bearden: Man of Metals
2013
0/10