It’s already been two years, but we’re still reckoning with 2011’s Drive, the type of glorious L.A. crime thriller that we thought today’s filmmakers had forgotten how to make.
The last reboot was a mere seven years ago, but even though, or perhaps because, those filmmakers took a paint by-numbers approach—right down to that dorky cowlick in our hero’s hair—the effort was largely forgettable.
Another nine years down the line, Hawke, Delpy, and director Richard Linklater return to the romantic, flirtatious series they began with 1995’s Before Sunrise and continued with 2004’s Before Sunset...