Linklater’s career has shape-shifted many times over the past 35 years. He arrived on the nascent indie scene with the micro-budget movie Slacker in 1990, a meandering film that helped define a decade of free-spirited art-house cinema. He’s worked on experimental animation, crime thrillers, and studio comedies, some of which hit (School of Rock) and some of which didn’t (Where’d You Go, Bernadette); he turned the romance Before Sunrise into a trilogy of Gen X classics; he spent more than a decade making the drama Boyhood, for which he received several Oscar nods. And last year saw the release of Netflix’s Hit Man, a fizzy black comedy that picked at the squeaky-clean star image of its lead actor, Glen Powell.