wrote, "Small movies can be as daring as big ones, and Linklater, in his offhand way, is working without a net here. Before Sunrise may be the closest an American has come to the discursive talk gamesmanship of Eric Rohmer". Online film critic James Berardinelli has cited the film as "the best romance of all time". Entertainment Weekly rated Before Sunrise #25 on their Top 25 Modern Romances list. In a 2008 Empire poll, Before Sunrise was ranked as the 200th greatest movie of all time. In 2010 British newspaper The Guardian ranked Before Sunrise/Before Sunset #3 on their critics' list of 25 best romantic films of all time, and #2 in an online readers' poll. Box office The film grossed $1.4 million in 363 theaters on its opening weekend, and went on to gross $5.5 million in the United States and Canada and $22.5 million worldwide, nine times its $2.5 million budget. Sequels Before Sunset was released in 2004 with Linklater, Krizan, Hawke, and Delpy to equally positive reviews, with the review-gathering site Rotten Tomatoes logging a 95% "Fresh" rating. A second sequel, Before Midnight, was released in 2013, again to rave reviews. Jesse and Céline also had a very short scene together in Linklater's 2001 animated film Waking Life. In this scene, the two are together in bed talking, though since the film is all about lucid dreaming, and from the plot points established in Before Sunset, the thought is that this scene never existed in reality. References External links Map with references to the shooting locations of Before Sunrise in Vienna The Before Trilogy: Time Regained an essay by Dennis Lim at the Criterion Collection 1995 films 1995 independent films 1995 romantic drama films 1990s English-language films 1990s French-language films 1990s German-language films American independent films American romantic drama films Austrian independent films Austrian romantic drama films Before trilogy Castle Rock Entertainment films Columbia Pictures films English-language Austrian films Films about conversations Films about couples Films directed by Richard Linklater Films set in 1994 Films set in Vienna Films shot in Vienna Rail transport films 1990s American films