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Before Midnight

2013

Richard Linklater

Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Jennifer Prior ...

7.3

27,351

Romance. Drama The third in the Richard Linklater series of romantic dramas, Before Midnight takes place in Greece nine years after the end of Before Sunset. Celine (Julie Delpy) y Jesse (Ethan Hawke) are parents to two girls. Jesse is learning to balance his new family while trying to maintain a relationship with his son Hank from his previous marriage. While her partner struggles with his son's relationship, Celine contemplates a career change.

	Author	Review
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Funny, harrowing relationship study. (...) remarkable installment of the Before... series. (...) audiences who have aged along with Celine and Jesse will treasure this new episode."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"From first scene to last, Hawke and Delpy shine brilliantly, wearing their roles like second skins (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"One of the great movie romances of the modern era achieves its richest and fullest expression in Linklater's third walking-and-talking collaboration with Hawke and Delpy. (...) Exquisite, melancholy, hilarious and cathartic"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"'Before Midnight' is a wonderful paradox: a movie passionately committed to the ideal of imperfection that is itself very close to perfect"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"It's not just darker than the previous two films. It's bigger, deeper, and more searching"	POS
United States	Farran Smith Nehme New York Post	"Finding romance is easy. Staying together is hard. Making a movie this warm, funny, and rigorously truthful about lovers trying to remain partners is even harder (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"'Before Midnight' is intimate and intelligent, and also undemanding in the best possible way (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Ty Burr Boston Globe	"If the first two films belong with the greatest (if talkiest) movie romances of all time, the new film is richer, riskier, and more bleakly perceptive about what it takes for love to endure (or not) over the long haul (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Joe Neumaier New York Daily News	"Delpy and Hawke, who’ve invested this trilogy with the fine shadings of life lived, do extraordinary things with small moments (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times	"The films have only gotten better by letting the relationship marinate. "Midnight's" more disgruntled edge reflects what creeps up on couples as years pass, regrets stack up, kids factor in, real life intervenes"	POS
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"A rich, smart, funny, sometimes acidic portrayal of a couple who can be spectacular when they’re in tune — and toxic when they’re at each other’s throats (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"Bittersweet, intelligently written, deftly acted and painfully honest (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"Delpy has always challenged Hawke to find a simpler, more direct form of acting in Linklater's films, which gives them their unique suspense and rolling tension (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS

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