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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
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Reviews Counted:211
Fresh:197
Rotten:14
Average Rating:8.4/10
Consensus: A twisty, trippy, yet moving take on love, Kaufman-style.
Theatrical Release:Mar 19, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $34,126,138
Synopsis: ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND is an unconventional romance told in the abstract, inventive, and comedic storytelling style of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. Like his scripts for ADAPTATION... [More]
Starring: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Tom Wilkinson
Director: Michel Gondry
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Reviews for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
A delightful little wormhole that takes us on a journey to another dimension of consciousness.
03/21/04
Feels like something entirely brand-new; such are the gifts of Kaufman and Gondry, inventors and magicians.
03/21/04
[Kaufman] clearly surpasses himself.
03/21/04
Top CriticWith a few adjustments of plot and premise, Gondry and Kaufman might have made their masterpiece here.
03/21/04
The disappointment I felt at the end of Eternal Sunshine was almost crushing, simply because there were sections of it that were as daring in their emotional directness as anything I've seen in years.
03/21/04
Top CriticThe movie is so inventive and beautiful that I don't see how it can be overlooked when next year's awards are given out.
03/21/04
[Jim] Carrey and [Kate] Winslet exude just the right chemistry--a destined connection--to make the love story between them ring with emotion and vitality.
03/20/04
Once again, Charlie Kaufman takes us down the rabbit hole in a way that only he can.
03/20/04
Kaufman has here dug into a deeper, more heartfelt core and come up with one of the best films ever made about memory, its importance and malleability.
03/19/04
Neither wholly cynical nor wholly romantic, Kaufman's story is a balance of smarts and sentiment.
03/19/04
Top CriticThe perfect movie about love's inevitable imperfections.
03/19/04
Gets it more than right by stripping the science down to its laptop basics -- it's a 'simple' memory-erasing process -- and by putting greater emphasis on the humanity behind the diodes.
03/19/04
Top CriticUtterly original, brilliant and complex.
03/19/04
This is the best movie I've seen in a decade. For once it's no hyperbole to say, 'Unforgettable!'
03/19/04
It's a scruffy, blurry puzzle to put together, and well worth the effort -- just be sure to clear a tabletop for it in your mind.
03/19/04
The thinking is shallow. The emotions are tepid. But the creativity is dazzling.
03/19/04
Top CriticThe movie's tone -- which is as naturalistic as the plot is fantastic -- heightens the tantalizing sense that maybe, finally, this is the real Carrey we're seeing.
03/19/04
Carrey is essentially the straight man, yet he's rarely been funnier. And Winslet is perfect as the model of an unstable woman who's bad news but irresistible.
03/19/04
Though certainly elliptical and challenging (and it moves well past the typical romantic notions it gently attacks), it's Kaufman's most universal and accessible film to date.
03/19/04
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