In the sci-fi thriller "A Scanner Darkly," the main character, played by Keanu Reeves, appears as a hazy, shape-shifting mass of ever-changing skin tones and features. A reluctant undercover drug ...

?A Scanner Darkly? is a film that is groundbreaking not only in its supremely original animation style, but also in its political and social commentary. Based on a Philip K. Dick novel written in 1977 ...

Richard Linklater may be one of the most talented filmmakers today, as anyone who could make Dazed and Confused and School of Rock while also making incredibly innovative, if not a bit bizarre, flicks ...

NEW YORK — With rotoscoping, anything can be made animated, even Keanu Reeves. It is this tracing animation that director Richard Linklater has again turned to — just as he did for his dreamy 2001 ...

Without its animation, "A Scanner Darkly" would have made a fine cautionary tale about drug addiction, paranoia and institutional treachery in a foundering police state. But with a technique that ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...