The chemistry is still there, but the magic has long gone. The third (and hopefully final) part of Richard Linklater’s talky romance-drama helmed by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy is mundane and cloying (right down to its predictable closer, which echoes Before Sunrise’s). While the first two films were each imbued with a wistful sense of longing, in Before Midnight, Jessie (Hawke) and Celine (Delpy) are finally, gasp, together! And they have two kids! And they’re sick and tired of one another!

You better believe it—this is Korea’s enfant terrible Kim Ki-duk’s (Breath, Bad Guy) best film yet. The winner of 2012’s Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival (edging out Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master) is an unflinching, twisted and flawless excursion into the darkest realms of the human condition.