There are any number of times where they could leave each other’s sights (again), but this time for good. But they don’t, and the audience is treated to love at first sight a second time.

| Feb 20, 2024

This would all be dreary and forgettable fluff, were it not for the charm and chemistry of the leads.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 29, 2023

Before Sunset is the kind of movie that takes every pre-conceived notion of filmmaking and throws it out the window. It is a celebration of being alive and how lovely and frightening love is.

| Jul 25, 2023

The conversations flow naturally – at first as if getting to know each other again, then later like two soulmates pouring their hearts out – and we never doubt that there is a real connection between these two characters.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

One of the difficulties is that the film makes no distinction between the inevitable, natural processes of aging and change and the ways in which people are worn down by man-made circumstances.

| Feb 15, 2021

This middle segment ends up being the least invigorating... Before Sunset feels a bit less substantial. Jesse and Celine play less easily off one another, their interactions clouded by adulthood, responsibility, etc.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 15, 2020

Before Sunset is a joy to behold.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 2, 2020

Before Sunset is proof that practice can make perfect. Linklater not only tackles loose ends of the original with imaginative aplomb, but he also works hard to make the movie work as a standalone essay...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 18, 2019

Before Sunset is a great film, great for the ways it transforms and enlarges the conceit of the single night together to allow for years of elapsed time.

| Mar 13, 2019

...a superior sequel that accomplishes everything that one might've hoped...

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 22, 2013

A stone-cold masterpiece.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Oct 1, 2012

It's a lovely, beguiling little film a rare treat during this overheated season of blockbusters. It's also an unusual example of a follow-up that doesn't seem forced, but expands effortlessly on the original.

| Aug 8, 2012

The reunion has some lively moments, but a great deal of slow walking and fatuous talking about love, married life and sex.

| Aug 8, 2012

Shooting in long takes, Linklater and his actors (who get co-screenwriting credit) allow the conversation to curlicue effortlessly from literate banter to matters of the heart, and sometimes to places in between.

| Aug 8, 2012

Charming, talky romance for older teens and adults.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 22, 2010

As a romance streaked with regrets, obligations and fears, "Sunset" builds to a wistful, perfect conclusion - a fadeout infused with the idea that a memory's never finished as long as you're alive and one of the loveliest last-line exchanges of all time.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 25, 2010

the film takes a miraculous healing turn at the end, and the characters rise above their ruefulness, and use it as a springboard into hope

| Original Score: 91/100 | Jan 17, 2010

Well acted, very well written, well told, and bears yet another ending that will keep audiences wondering.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 29, 2009

Linklater, Hawke and Delpy have collaborated on the script, resulting in an enthralling snapshot of life from the point of view of two like souls who spark by just being in each other's presence.

| Oct 18, 2008

Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy have reconvened to bring us this belated, yet very welcome sequel.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 7, 2007