Jake (Blake Jenner) is a freshman on a baseball scholarship living with the rest of the team in their frathouse looking for girls and parties three days before classes are set to begin.Drawing on Linklater's own biography as a baseball-playing student at Sam Houston University of Texas, the film offers little in the way of plot or narrative, but provides plenty of distinctive characters and intelligent humour to enjoy.It's as if Linklater had directed his mostly unknown cast to inhabit their environment and meander along to the rhythms of everyday life while ignoring his fly-on-the-wall, almost anthropological approach to their existence. Contrary to the cliché, youth is not always wasted on the young, and Linklater's characters search for something none of them will recognise until they hit middle age.As with Boyhood , Linklater manages to say so much about what it feels like to be alive at that age that you quickly give up on the traditional requirements of the genre and revel in the loving, surprisingly unsentimental glow of the experience.With perfect pace, subtle period detail and spot-on performances, the film unfolds seamlessly towards its realistically unresolved, uncertain anti-climax. It's also helped along by a judicious selection of old school rock that keeps you tapping your feet in happy nostalgic recognition - from The Knack's My Sharona to the track by Van Halen that the film takes its title from.Existentialist without being improbably philosophical, recognisably true without having to resort to pastiche - it's a minor film in the director's canon but one that resonates with his generally optimistic view of humanity.WHAT OTHERS SAY:As small and specific as it is, 'Everybody Wants Some!!' feels improbably expansive. - Ann Hornaday Washington Post.It's an effortless cult classic, delivered by a master of the form, and one of the first truly must-see movies of 2016. - David Sims The Atlantic..