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Aug 23, 1991 · Roger Ebert August 23, 1991. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. "Slacker" is a movie with an appeal almost impossible to describe, although the method of the director, Richard Linklater, is as clear as day. He wants to show us a certain strata of campus life at the present time — a group of people he calls "slackers," although ...
Slacker rests its shiftless thumb on the pulse of a generation with fresh filmmaking that captures the tenor of its time while establishing a benchmark for 1990s indie cinema. Read Critics Reviews ...
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Jul 20, 2021 · Film & TV Thirty Years After ‘Slacker,’ the Film Is an Austin Time Capsule—And a Hopeful Tribute to Its Spirit Richard Linklater’s film belongs in the canon of great Texas cinema.
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Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 8, 2020. Richard Brody New Yorker. TOP CRITIC. The film presents the teeming weirdness of daily life in Austin as a swarm of individual alternatives, each ...
Jul 5, 1991 · Slacker: Directed by Richard Linklater. With Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine, Jan Hockey. A day in the life of Austin, Texas as the camera roams from place to place and provides a brief look at the overeducated, the social misfits, the outcasts and the oddballs.
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Jun 14, 2021 · Slacker is certainly not the only, nor the most influential of low-budget independent filmmaking from the 1990s. But it is a model example of a feature depicting traits that came to define a filmmaker’s career, and that is easy to see 30 years after the fact.
Slacker is a meditative film that, though it has a very discernible forward momentum, lacks a discernible story. Slacker is concerned with a certain group of people in a certain place at a certain time. It's philosophical and an interesting satire of a particular sub-group wandering through a post-Reagan haze.
