"...Finally, a date movie that gets it right....A sharp, sexy, funny romance with a radical core of intelligence that catches the fever and fleetingness of love..."
Rolling Stone "...Touchingly tender..."
USA Today "...[Linklater] is working without a net here....[BEFORE SUNRISE] render[s] visible the magical air pocket of intimacy..." -- Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly "...A lovely, rather risky concept....Delpy's Celine is a beautiful creation..."
Variety "...An intoxicatingly romantic idea....BEFORE SUNRISE taps into something universal..."
New York Times "...Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy both respond to the looseness of Linklater's approach with their most engaging performances to date..."
Sight and Sound "...[Linklater] captures the thrill of chance encounters....A romantic comedy about the erotic appeal of nationality..."
Los Angeles Times "...[The film is] about two nice kids, literate, sensitive, tentative, intoxicated by the fact that their lives stretch out before them, filled with mystery and hope, and maybe love....It is an ideal film for teenagers..."
Chicago Sun-Times