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Before Midnight

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On the last night of their idyllic Greek vacation, longtime lovers Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) reminisce about their lives together and what different choices might have brought.
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Building on the first two installments in Richard Linklater's well-crafted Before trilogy, Before Midnight offers intelligent, powerfully acted perspectives on love, marriage, and long-term commitment.

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Oktay Ege Kozak Bitch Media 01/15/2021
A refreshing counter-point to Hollywood's typical happily ever after stories. Go to Full Review
Amy Taubin Film Comment Magazine 08/28/2019
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. Go to Full Review
Candice Frederick Reel Talk Online 09/06/2017
While the film has certainly satisfied many audiences and critics across the board, I was left very cold and bewildered, questioning what I even saw. Go to Full Review
JD Duran InSession Film 08/13/2024
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. Go to Full Review
Don Shanahan Every Movie Has a Lesson 02/16/2024
5/5
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. Go to Full Review
Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies 08/19/2022
3.5/5
It uses many of the same familiar narrative structures of the previous films while also making a few pretty big departures. Go to Full Review
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Sahil K @Sahilk171 Dec 19 The worst of the trilogy , mostly boring and too far extended, 5/10 See more Jonathan K @aFIREintheattic Nov 17 What I especially love about these films is that the conversations, the little flare-ups, the bigger fights… they all feel painfully familiar, like versions of arguments we've all wandered into. Their uncanny acting always impresses me. Not in a showy way, but in the sense of so much preparation without feeling forced or scripted even though it isn't ad-libbed. They're just good. The opening shot, something like a 15-min oner, is so skillful in maintaining the natural ease. Even so, this one didn't hit me in the feels like the previous two. It’s lighter, maybe even funnier than I remember the others being, but not as emotionally heavy. Still, the craft is there from start to finish, and I'm always in for a "Before". See more Stephen C @bob25009 Jun 8 Success in 1 hour and 49 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated R for Sexual Content/Nudity and Language!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See more Faiz D May 13 Being a big fan of both Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, I was truly thrilled to see this new chapter of Jesse and Celine's relationship. Everything's better with maturity and this is simply brilliant film making: funny, raw, complicated, emotionally and uncomfortably honest and painfully heartfelt. See more Peter J Apr 26 The first movie was pretty good, this movie is horrible. Endless endless endless meaningless dialogue. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That was a recap of the entire movie. NOTHING HAPPENS, just words that go nowhere, mean nothing. I would have said spoiler alert but there is nothing to spoil See more William B Mar 9 A perfect third part for this series. To be honest, in the beginning I thought it would be a disaster (like many directors make to close a trilogy) but this one was perfect. It ended in the best possible way. Recommended. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis On the last night of their idyllic Greek vacation, longtime lovers Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) reminisce about their lives together and what different choices might have brought.
Director
Richard Linklater
Producer
Richard Linklater, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Sara Woodhatch
Screenwriter
Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
Distributor
Sony Pictures Classics
Production Co
Castle Rock Entertainment, Venture Forth, Faliro House
Rating
R (Sexual Content/Nudity|Language)
Genre
Romance, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
May 24, 2013, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 15, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA)
$8.1M
Runtime
1h 49m
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