At long last, Richard Linklater's bookend to the Before trilogy returns to the Golden Screen. Roughly a decade on from where Before Sunset left off, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke are back as Celine and Jesse, a couple who met on a train in Vienna in 1993. They're now together full-time with twin daughters (plus Jesse’s son from his previous marriage) taking a summer holiday on the stunning Greek Peloponnese peninsula. When their friends offer to take the kids off their hands for the night, the two take a stroll down to a retreat by the shore, along the way reflecting on how they met, what they're doing with their lives, where they'll live and whether they’re still in love. It's a beautifully honest and bitingly funny end to their well-worn triangle.

Because closure is healthy, my friend. If you've not seen the first two, that's also okay because Before Midnight is written so that you can jump right in here. Linklater, Delpy and Hawke’s decades-spanning cinematic experiment reaches its conclusion brilliantly, returning to these characters, these people, in real time, like catching up with old friends and asking the big scary questions about the lives they’ve lived and things to come. Slipping back into Celine and Jesse’s shoes with grace, humour and honesty, our leading couple are as magnetic to watch and listen to as ever, fitting in as much discussion, flirting and chatter as possible before their eponymous deadline – but here conversation takes a heavier turn and the realities of their relationship are put under harsh scrutiny.