Richard Linklater´s latest lands in vexing middle ground
(WorldNews Health)

More so than most filmmakers who treat their characters like human beings, rather than cardboard plot inhabitants, the writer-director Richard Linklater intuits his way into finding the right tone, or mixture of tones, for whatever story he’s telling. Sometimes he wins. Sometimes he doesn’t. And sometimes he lands in a vexing middle ground, as with his latest film, an adaptation co-written with Holly Gent and Vince Palmo of the 2012 Maria Semple novel “Where’d You Go, Bernadette.� Narrated by 15-year-old Bee Branch, Semple’s epistolary comedy conveys its story of Bee;...