There's something wrong about this article right from its title. Linklater became a political filmmaker before Fast Food Nation: Slacker (1991) is a political film, in many ways. And The Newton Boys (1988) is even more radical than his adaptation of Eric Schlosser's book.

Wow, guys, congratulations. You really have the talent to post arbitrary, mean and poorly written articles.

Rosenbaum became "famous" among the film community about 15 or 20 years ago, when Godard said: "I think there is a very good film critic in the United States today, a successor of James Agee, and that is Jonathan Rosenbaum. He's one of the best; we don't have writers like him in France today. He's like André Bazin".…

Hassenger: first of all, it's obvious that the foolish comment I answered to has nothing to do with the quality of your review. Apologies for that.
On the other hand, as a critic or reviewer, you should know you must be opened to public scrutiny, just like the films you write about (I've written reviews about movies…

If you watched the film, and read the review by Jonathan Rosenbaum (I gave the link in my previous comment) instead of this mediocre article, you would know that it's a little more complex than that.

My pleasure. Jonathan Rosenbaum is one of the few serious American film critics alive. Regards.

"all-talk experiment", "small-scale cinematic conversation"? Like in every film made by Linklater, there's plenty of visual suggestion, and mise-en-scène work in Tape. The compositions and the editing work by Sandra Adair are as important as the dialogue, and are even more revealing to the viewer than what the…

Actually, I don't think it's fair to compare this arbitrary, ridiculous, almost insulting article with The Newton Boys, an underrated and overrated gem, one of Linklater's most remarkable films. This is a prophetic article by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum about that movie and Linklater's work in general, when Then Newton…

What a hideous and arbitrary article!

Really? What about the Before trilogy, Slacker, Waking Life, or Bernie? And since when the most popular films are the best? One of my favorite Linklater movies is his most underrated and unseen: The Newton Boys.