Love-it-or-hate-it film best for older teens.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 29, 2010

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 18, 2008

This inventive animated film, which takes Linklater back to his roots in Austin and Slacker, represents a summation of all the philosophical concerns that have defined him as spokesperson for Gen-X.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Oct 31, 2006

The endless philosophising is a bit sophomoric and more jokes would help, but this is one of a kind that grows more absorbing the longer it runs.

| Jan 26, 2006

The pictures are gorgeous, and the words, well, if you listen hard enough, the words say exactly what one needs to hear: that is, to wake up and live.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 10, 2003

An intriguing and visually impressive film squarely aimed at the art house crowd.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 2, 2003

For a movie heralded as the cutting edge of visual innovation, Waking Life is disappointingly dull in every other respect.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 6, 2002

This is a wildly invigorating, unexpectedly thrilling and even moving film.

| Apr 24, 2002

You'll find more self-involvement and cod philosophising here than in all the world's coffee houses.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 15, 2002

If there was ever a film that made ontological exploration fun, this is it.

Full Review | Jan 22, 2002

Exhilarating, transporting, funny and haunting -- and at times maddeningly heady or narcotically logy -- Waking Life doesn't compare to any other movie experience I've ever had.

| Dec 5, 2001

To paraphrase the enduring title of a new-wave album, it is pure pop for dream people.

| Nov 2, 2001

It may not be for everyone -- the movie requires a high tolerance for statements such as 'there's only one instant, and it's now, and it's eternity' -- but it's like nothing else in theaters right now.

Full Review | Oct 28, 2001

Adds up to little more than a series of disconnected impressions, but it holds interest despite an almost nonexistent narrative, and that's something.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 28, 2001

Often surreal, Waking Life transcends boundaries of technology, imagination.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 28, 2001

It's thoughtful, provocative, liberating and fun.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 25, 2001

Minute 69 evolves several geological epochs later into Minute 70 -- and then there are 27 minutes left to go!

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 25, 2001

Linklater mixed his grad-student-on-speed discourses with a few genuinely engrossing yakkers.

Full Review | Oct 25, 2001

Like My Dinner with Andre and other appallingly smart movies, this one reminded me that I need to read more books and watch less television.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 25, 2001

Anyone who finds value in wondering who we are or why we're here, what's real and what's not, should be overjoyed to find a theatrical release with the same sense of curiosity.

Full Review | Oct 25, 2001