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Before Sunrise Review

Other Critics provided by Metacritic.com

Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 4.0
    77

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally favorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 100

    out of 100

    ReelViews James Berardinelli

    Before Sunrise speaks as much to the mind as to the heart, and much of what it says is likely to strike a responsive chord -- a rare and special accomplishment for any motion picture.

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  • 60

    out of 100

    Variety Todd McCarthy

    While pic remains sympathetic and appealing, the endless dialogue and repetitive settings become wearing through the couple's one long night together, and the artifice of the premise may contribute to the difficulty the film has in coming to romantic life.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Peter Rainer

    There's nothing much to the movie, except for the amiability of the actors and the layers of feeling Linklater provides, but that's just almost enough.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    The New York Times Elvis Mitchell

    What Mr. Linklater does best here is to come up with conversational gambits that have just the right fancifulness to suit this situation.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    Before Sunrise is so much like real life - like a documentary with an invisible camera - that I found myself remembering real conversations I had experienced with more or less the same words.

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  • 91

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    If Linklater goes to a bit of an extreme here, it's in making both characters so intelligent and sincere, so ardent and giving, that they seem a little too good to believe.

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For Families provided by Common Sense Media

OK for kids 16+

Two strangers quickly fall in love, discuss big ideas.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this film's straightforwardness is bound to make its ideas about sex, romance, and religion convincing to a late-teen audience in search of answers for life's toughest questions. Sex, however, is implied and is dealt with in a very serious, respectful manner.

  • Families can talk about the possible downside to brief romances. Trusting a raffish stranger on a train may be romantic, but could it be dangerous? How does one balance the need to be romantic and free-spirited with responsibility? Is there a way to be careful about romantic relationships without being jaded or unromantic?

The good stuff
  • message true0

    Messages: Not an issue

What to watch for
  • violence false0

    Violence: Not an issue

  • sex false3

    Sex: Lots of frank discussion of sex and love.

  • language false3

    Language: Some casual swearing.

  • consumerism false0

    Consumerism: Not an issue

  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3

    Drinking, drugs and smoking: Some drinking.

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