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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2004

Michel Gondry

Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo ...

7.6

105,383

Drama. Romance. Comedy. Sci-Fi Joel (Jim Carrey) is stunned to discover that his girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet) has had her memories of their tumultuous relationship erased. Out of desperation, he contacts the inventor of the process, Dr. Howard Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson), to have Clementine removed from his own memory. But as Joel's memories progressively disappear, he begins to rediscover his love for Clementine. From deep within the recesses of his brain, ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"The perfect movie about love's inevitable imperfections"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"If films about coping with memory loss and/or reverse-order storytelling now constitute a mini-genre, then pic is arguably the best of the lot"	POS
United States	Elvis Mitchell The New York Times	"This angular and intelligent romantic comedy isn't entirely consistent. Even as you laugh, it's a movie you admire more than love."	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Eternal Sunshine' has an emotional center, and that's what makes it work (...) [Carrey] has an everyman appeal, and here he dials down his natural energy (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Brilliantly constructed and engagingly executed, this has quite a few tricks up its sleeve"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	May be the first movie I've seen that bends your brain and breaks your heart at the same time"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[It] is suffused with Kaufman's unique charm, his existential drollery, his humane affection for the lonely and vulnerable (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"The audience is left without a ballast to anchor it firmly in space and time, but Kaufman and Gondry conjure the life of the mind with such imagination and emotion that it's worth taking the leap with them"	POS
United States	Jeff Otto IGN	"A mind-melting, dramatic masterpiece (...) A beautiful, touching and realistic portrayal of a relationship gone awry"	POS
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"Some people may find the early going tough, but this remarkable movie is in possession of a serious mind and a rare, true heart (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Rene Rodriguez Miami Herald	A thoughtful, audacious meditation on love and relationships that finds a group of wildly disparate talents clicking together in perfect unison"	POS
United States	Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune	One of the deepest, most moving dramas in years"	POS

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