It's not on the same level as "Before Sunrise" but it's still better than 90-95% of 21st Century films

Rating: Null/10 (16 November 2014)

The writing and acting are once again remarkable. Julie Delpy is enchanting and phenomenal as Céline. The film takes place nine years after the events of "Before Sunrise" and begins with Jesse being interviewed about his novel "This Time", which was inspired by his encounter with Céline on 16 June 1994. A journalist asks him if the book was autobiographical. In this scene, Jesse was serving as a stand-in for the director and co-writer Richard Linklater since, as I mentioned in my review of the first film, it was based on his encounter with a woman in 1989. The line is also significant as Jesse's marital problems reflect those of Ethan Hawke, who was in the process of divorcing Uma Thurman at the time that the film was made.
Many of the things that I loved about this film are the same as those that I loved about "Before Sunrise" so I won't repeat myself. One thing that I loved about this film in particular was the brilliant exploration of how Jesse and Céline had changed over the course of the last nine years, for better and for worse, and the ways in which their experiences in the first film affected them, again for better and for worse.
In the first film, it was left ambiguous as to whether or not they had sex. In this film, that ambiguity was eliminated, which was my only disappointment with either film as I loved that. However, it is an incredibly minor thing and, given how much time they spend talking about sex in the film, it would have been farcical if they didn't discuss what happened that night.