97% Before Midnight

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Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy are both fine actors, but you'd be hard pressed to sit engrossed in a conversation between any actors that goes on for more than a couple of minutes. Usually. But not here.

Linklater and his actors expose small fissures with an admirable subtlety.

What Linklater, Delpy and Hawke have achieved with their trilogy is at once fluidly cinematic and novelistic, with stories behind the stories and possible endings beyond the endings we're given.

The Before series has steadily gotten better as it goes along, which is more than any but the most optimistic among us dare to hope for from love.

Before Midnight is the fullest and richest and saddest of the three movies in the trilogy.

the actual give-and-take between the characters is uncomfortably emotionally accurate, which means it will make an excellent, if challenging, date movie for both new and old couples.

As witty and charming as ever, with a healthy raw dose of a marriage in trouble

Their discussions have the rhythm of real life, as likely to generate nods of recognition from couples in the audience as start a fight between them on the way home.

Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy come off as if they were conjoined for the past nine years in the gloriously-acted, hypnotically-conversational conclusion to the Before Sunrise trilogy -- the year's first legit contender for awards season love.

The last 40 minutes consisting of acute, sharp, and biting dialogue reminiscent of 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' make sitting through the excruciating first hour worth it.

Brilliant, mature third chapter to heartfelt romantic saga.

Truth is beauty, and beauty truth, but they're not necessarily romantic nine years into a serious committed relationship with two kids in the backseat.

No matter how long the gap between movies has been or how completely the characters' lives have changed, when Jesse and Celine turn to each other and start one of their famously epic conversations, it feels like no time has passed at all.

A life-affirming, emotionally captivating and rewarding experience. It treats the audience like sophisticated, mature adults---a demographic that has been sorely neglected by Hollywood nowadays.

The combination of high-level performance and subtle construction, in a picture in which nothing blows up, is actually thrilling.

While not the most fun or sexiest film in this trilogy -- do you want to watch mom and dad fight for 30 minutes straight? -- it's easily the most necessary, and it's the logical extension of where this relationship story should and must go.

The actors have mastered these roles, and Linklater's observational style is so perfected that they could go on speaking for hours

You feel how much is at stake when they argue, how real the damage they inflict, and you can't shake it off. It's a spectacular movie.

Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/before_midnight_2013/

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