He might be one of the greatest directors of all time: Richard Linklater. Now he is back. Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!! is being billed as a “spiritual sequel” to his 1993 high school stoner classic Dazed and Confused, but in some key ways it feels closer to his animated 2001 philosophy bull-session Waking Life — a freewheeling grab-bag of ideas and loose ends held together by the director’s generous sensibility. Or maybe the new film is the missing link between the two, turning these apparently disparate works into a continuum, a journey between checking out, attaining self-knowledge, and achieving transcendence. That might seem like a lot of weight to put on a movie that is, at least on its surface, about a bunch of college baseball players trying to get laid. But Linklater’s great talent is to remain light on his feet while drifting into the metaphysical — to balance the earthly with the profound, and to find the people somewhere in between.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THU_T5qPpbE&nohtml5=False