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

Before Sunset retains most of what was engaging about the first movie: it has its gentleness, its romanticism and, most importantly, its idealism. What it has lost is the sense of mystery.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2007

At the risk of overhyping 80 minutes of intimate real-time, this is the soul of generosity, a beautifully vibrant and big-spirited film.

| Feb 9, 2006

Before Sunrise and Before Sunset are a rare case of two movies that rightfully demand yet another sequel.

Full Review | Aug 1, 2004

A richer experience than the original.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 30, 2004

Mr. Linklater and his two creative leads have managed a miraculous transformation of the characters from once-callow lovers into grown-ups teetering on the edge of eternity.

| Jul 23, 2004

An intelligent, engagingly honest study of love lost and, just maybe, regained.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 23, 2004

What is to all intents and purposes 80 minutes worth of stolen moments, turns out to be one of the most rewarding films of the year

| Jul 22, 2004

The sequel no one needed is a surprise pleasure: witty, heartfelt, and true.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 20, 2004

The chemistry between Jesse and Celine --- and Hawke and Delpy and, for that matter, Linklater --- is as immediate as it is appealing.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 15, 2004

A fluid, engaging, charming, frustrating, funny, and lively movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 11, 2004

Allows you to watch two deeply engaged and engaging performers moving verbally through delicately negotiated layers of delight, apprehension, desire and surrender.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 9, 2004

Hawke and Delpy are credited with writing some of the dialogue, presumably as improvisations. They manage to be both natural and intense, and their characters feel real, even if the situation does not.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 9, 2004

A simply amazing film -- touching, sexy, smart, sad and, beyond all, passionate about the value of time and love.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Jul 9, 2004

For all its modesty, lingers in the mind like an unresolved relationship or a life-altering, if random, moment.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 9, 2004

How often does a visual medium make such an elegant argument about the beauty of language, even as it asserts its right to tell a story and move us with its vision?

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 9, 2004

A fictional romance with a factual feel, a near-documentary quality that makes it difficult to distinguish the actor from the role.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 9, 2004