Forget Spider-Man's tussle with Doc Ock. Forget Shrek's trek to Far Far Away. And forget Harry Potter's latest attempt to endure the snipes of Snape. For me, the sequel to see during the summer of 2004 is Richard Linklater's Before Sunset, a follow-up to 1994's sublime Before Sunrise. This is one of those exceedingly rare instances in which the motivation for a sequel is creative, not financial. Before Sunrise was not a big money-maker; the existence of a second chapter defies current movie-making logic, and for that I couldn't be happier.