Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind Reviews

Imaginative, loopy romance is for adults only.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

This is a wonderful, often beautiful, and melancholy character study of romance, humanity, and the mind with wonderful acting, incredible surrealism and a funny and heart-wrenching story.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

The film entertains for the most part and gives us a set of marvellous performances from this outstanding cast, even if it doesn't quite reach the near-genius of Kaufman's other writings.

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Most imaginative and impressively executed...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Kaufman and Gondry bring out all the weirdness of the premise, sometimes eliciting disbelieving laughter, sometimes taking us to odd, chilly places.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Walking into a theater with Charlie Kaufman on the screen is like volunteering for that wacky boat trip Willy Wonka took through the chocolate factory tunnel...

| Original Score: 4/4

Works marvel after marvel in expressing the bewildering beauty and existential horror of being trapped inside one's own addled mind, and in allegorising the self-preserving amnesia of a broken but hopeful heart.

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Eternal Sunshine is fresh, heartfelt and ultimately heartbreaking in its honest portrayal of a modern relationship.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

It is an enchanting clutter of love and reason that will only appeal to the audience willing to take the time to see the movie and then think about it later.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

A unique deconstruction of man's innate desire to avert heartache.

Full Review | Original Score: A-

| Original Score: 3.5/5

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

The kind of movie that only gets better the more you think about it and I think it cries out for repeat viewings.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

You won't soon forget this walk down memory lane. Actually, make that a RUN down memory lane.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Odd but compelling; one of the year's 10 best

like in the best sci-fi, it's primarily a metaphor for a deeper dilemma: the question of whether or not we'd really be better off eliminating heartbreak from our lives.

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Most Hollywood films tell us we have everything we need within ourselves. [This movie] indicates that we need each other, even ... when togetherness disrupts happiness.

| Original Score: 3.5/4

...aligned with the Nietzschean idea that we are doomed to be ourselves, that the "eternal recurrence of the same" has a gravitational pull on our hearts.

Full Review | Original Score: A

An unusual one but a great one, it will have you asking questions about the true nature of love for some time afterwards.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10

Without a connection to the central relationship, all of Kaufman's musings and Gondry's visual frills would be for naught, but... it all fits into place.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4