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The Weight (2026)
Ethan Hawke somehow seems a natural fit for any time period. In The Weight, set in 1933, the actor’s face—lean and angular, his eyes conveying perpetual anguish—could belong to someone in one of Dorothea Lange’s celebrated photographs from the Great Depression. It’s a somber face, well suited to a role that is something of a…
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Before Midnight (2013)
In Before Midnight, the third and final installment of director Richard Linklater’s odes to romance, there’s a sly bit that reflects the personal baggage that fans of this trilogy brought to this film. Jesse (Ethan Hawke), the writer we’ve watched meet, fall for and settle down with Celine (Julie Delpy), tells some colleagues about a…