12 Years A Slave is one of the most arduous films to watch in 2013 but also one of the more powerful and moving films as well.

| Aug 13, 2024

In another dialogue-driven showcase to match the first two chapters, the chemistry of the two leads back together has grown and matured to match the grown and matured characters they play.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 16, 2024

It uses many of the same familiar narrative structures of the previous films while also making a few pretty big departures.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

Before Midnight's journey is not only an intellectual one.

| Mar 3, 2021

Done with humor, heart and pathos, often in the same scene, it is a poignant farewell to two characters who grew up in front of us.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 31, 2021

A refreshing counter-point to Hollywood's typical happily ever after stories.

| Jan 15, 2021

Linklater closes one of the best romantic trilogies in the history of modern cinema with 'Before Midnight'. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 25, 2020

In the brilliant third part of Richard Linklater's two-decade spanning trilogy, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy stroll through a paradise-on-earth slice of Greece.

| Jun 19, 2020

Having spent some of the most romantic scenes in all of cinema in their company (a stroll at dawn in Vienna, Delpy singing "A Waltz for a Night"), the thought of their divorce will hit you harder than any of your own breakups.

| Apr 5, 2020

Beautifully lensed by Christos Voudouris, the light, the location are celebratory and metaphoric with a timeless classic beauty serving as a testament to the battles of life and marriage and surviving with dignity and grace.

| Jan 7, 2020

Painfully honest, refreshing with wonderful lead performances, Before Midnight is an intimate and charming comedy drama.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 26, 2019

Unleashing a stream of feminist consciousness that is both outraged and outrageous-and cathartic because we are laughing with her, not at her-Céline emerges as a 21st-century hero and Delpy as the Carole Lombard of our time.

| Aug 28, 2019

Before Midnight is quiet, shrewd and sparse. It is unassuming and unafraid to poke fun at its own sporadic pretentiousness. It is funny. It is heartwarming. It is heartbreaking. It is inspired.

| Original Score: A | Aug 27, 2019

One can't quite (and shouldn't) consider this to be the absolute last we'll see of these beloved characters... but as far as worthwhile and natural progression goes, Linklater and crew would be hard pressed to best Before Midnight.

| Aug 20, 2019

Before Midnight is a great date movie-for a couple willing to risk getting locked in the kind of discussion after that may not end before midnight.

| Aug 6, 2019

Unblemished and smooth-as-silk, flowing from one moment to the next like water. It's a seamless experience.

| Original Score: 9.3/10 | Apr 12, 2019

Linklater tries almost too hard and pre-determinedly to create a supposedly bathetic and neurotic fortysomething counterpoint to the "what if" musings of the earlier two films

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2019

I was equally drawn to and repelled by the characters on the screen and the real people, mewling and squirming, in the seats of the theater.

| Mar 13, 2019

This is the most mature romance I can remember seeing onscreen.

| Feb 26, 2019

There's drama, truth, poignancy and joy on display here. As Linklater knows all to well, it's a potent, engrossing combination.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 26, 2019