Now Linklater has adapted Philip K. Dick’s dark, paranoid nightmare “A Scanner Darkly,” and the crackpots are looking a little less crazy. As the saying goes, just because you’re paranoid ...

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 ...

Having plumbed the lighter side of narcotics in “Dazed and Confused” (1993), filmmaker Richard Linklater descends into a bleak netherworld of addiction and squalor in “A Scanner Darkly ...

Now the prolific writer-director Richard Linklater is adding to the list with the computer-animated “A Scanner Darkly,” based on Dick’s futuristic 1977 novel about a narc dealing with an ...