While Everybody Wants Some!! isn't a great movie, there is something comforting about its predictability, self-awareness, and ability to basically recapture the plot of every single end-of-school-year/beginning-of-school-year teen/early 20s storyline.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 21, 2017

The movie respects its audience in a way few of these coming-of-age comedies ever do, and while not a home run for Linklater, it's still a solid triple off the wall I'm certain to still be cheering for throughout the remainder of 2016.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 11, 2016

There's no storyline. The script just drifts from one vignette to the next as the boys cruise around, ogling girls, haunting the campus night spots and staging a party while their house does its best to remain standing under their assaults.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 29, 2016

Despite its easygoing spirit, Everybody is tightly structured, framed by four parties and a countdown clock to the start of classes. For a movie that's pretty much about nothing, it's incredibly well-paced and never overstays its welcome.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 23, 2016

It's as if Linklater is bound by a bro code that obliges him to present these guys in a basically uncritical light.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 22, 2016

Linklater has audaciously made a movie about our most maligned subset of young men -- bros -- and forced us to admit that we actually like them.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 13, 2016

There's none of the humiliating gross-out humour that dominates modern teen comedy, giving the film an affable, breezy appeal -- although, as often happens in Linklater-land, apparently light-hearted scenes are tinged with violence.

| May 20, 2016

Everybody Wants Some!! is obsessed with seduction. Don't let me stop you going all the way with Linklater. I'm just here to warn you that, with regards to this film, he doesn't go very deep.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 15, 2016

The picture works best if you reserve judgment - yes, some of the attitudes towards women are a little unreformed and some of the characters are puddle deep - and enjoy the show.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 15, 2016

After his intimate, generation-spanning epic Boyhood, Richard Linklater is back with an equally special and magical film, albeit one with a much tighter focus.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2016

Linklater is too besotted with his male creations to see that they can be divided almost without exception between the bland and the obnoxious. Even his usual eye for detail is a little off.

| May 12, 2016

I was fed up of them all by the end, I have to say.

| May 12, 2016

The look of the film - hair, costumes, even sunlight - is exactly right. The sound of it is even better. Music constantly plays from ubiquitous car stereos and turntables, and every scene has its own groove.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 12, 2016

For someone humming much the same tune from film to film, Linklater has an amazing versatility.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2016

A deceptively subtle comedy, and also a challengingly and almost provokingly unironic film intensifying and cartoonifying what it is like to be young and male ...

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2016

A perfectly pitched blast of nostalgia, which will transport you to that time in life when the future stretched before you and anything seemed possible.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 21, 2016

[Linklater's] light touch remains a marvel. Though his characters are often just bouncing from conversation to conversation, night out to night out, the film's direction is never lackadaisical.

| Apr 19, 2016

Imagine "Porky's" as an intelligent character study and you're on the right path.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 15, 2016

Another love letter to the magic hour of adolescence from director Richard Linklater.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 13, 2016

Can only be described in the same way you might talk about college jocks -- attractive, dumb and charming, against your better judgment.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 13, 2016