Movie review: 3 Vietnam veterans embark on talky, touching odyssey in 'Last Flag Flying'
Few American independent filmmakers are in the sequel business, but Richard Linklater, the most experimental of mainstream directors and vice versa, has long been a fascinating exception to the rule.
His idea of a movie franchise - the decades-spanning romantic trilogy "Before Sunrise" (1995), "Before Sunset" (2004) and "Before Midnight" (2013) - is less an attempt at box-office longevity than a casually profound meditation on time and its paradoxes. The raucous college shenanigans of "Everybody Wants Some!!" (2016) may not have been a direct response to the high school high jinks of "Dazed and Confused," but the near-spiritual connection felt both intuitive and undeniable.
"Last Flag Flying," Linklater's warm, ribald and elegiac new comedy about three Vietnam vets
