Filmed in the same computer-animation style as Linklater’s charming “Waking Life” (2001), “A Scanner Darkly” was shot first as a live-action feature, then transformed over a 15-month ...

In Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, Keanu Reeves plays “Agent ... Linklater uses the same style of animation that made his earlier film Waking Life so hypnotic. Animators “paint ...

each segment of which blossomed forth in its own visual style. In A Scanner Darkly, Linklater has again relied on Sabiston’s ingenious aerosol-and-Styrofoam technique, but this time he’s ...

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 ...

A Scanner Darkly should probably be seen a few times ... The Blu-ray is worth picking up for those who dig this style of animation and Philip K. Dick, as the film is presented in the most amazing ...

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 ...

Wow.<BR><BR>WOW.<BR><BR>I felt like I was on substance D for most of the movie - the use of sliding backgrounds, polymorphism, and other effects that could only have read right with this style..

Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder take a semi-animated form in "A Scanner Darkly," based on Philip K. Dick's novel about his own drug abuse. Linklater, you’ve landed lookers such as Keanu Reeves ...

Richard Linklater’s trippy and sinister bad-vibe whatchamacallit A Scanner Darkly might be described as an animated movie, only the animation consists of live-action footage that’s been ...