– Director: Richard Linklater

– Stacker score: 93.2

– Metascore: 100

– IMDb user rating: 7.9

– Runtime: 165 minutes

Shot over the course of 12 years, Richard Linklater’s experimental drama brings a whole new meaning to the coming-of-age conceit. Not so much a story as much as it is a collection of telling scenes, the film trails Mason, played by Ellar Coltrane, from boyhood to college-age adolescence. Patricia Arquette won an Academy Award for her supporting role as Mason’s mother.