Roger Ebert's review
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- The podcast explicitly states that Roger Ebert gave Before Sunrise three stars.
- Ebert calls the story a nicer, sweeter, gentler version of a scenario that has happened millions of times.
- Ebert frames the film as a Generation X love affair whose leads stand outside their generation's insistence on boredom.
- Ebert describes Julie Delpy as beautiful, warm, and matter-of-fact.
- Ebert says Linklater is interested in ordinary time, people crossing paths, conversation, and uncertain philosophies.
- Ebert’s age of 53 prompts discussion of whether an older critic would grasp this Gen X romance; it is said to work for older viewers now.