Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Reviews
Eternal Sunshine is still a testament to that flickering moment when Carrey surrendered his abilities to great filmmakers, as well as composer Jon Brion’s facility with aching woodwinds.
| Feb 19, 2025
[Winslet & Carrey] were liberated as Clementine and Joel — both quietly heartbreaking.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 12, 2025
...giving us an ending that is more painfully honest and, as a result, more romantic.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 16, 2024
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of the purest examinations of love, and it never pulls any punches.
| Feb 20, 2024
We’re quick to run to love, away from it, to spur it on, or move on from it. In no other film is this more clear than Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind.
| Sep 1, 2023
The wacky sight gags and psycho-drama slapstick is tinged with melancholy and regret ...
| May 6, 2023
Eternal classic, not much else to say.
| Mar 21, 2023
This finely crafted surrealism comes with rich poignancy.
| Mar 13, 2023
An odd sort of love story, a melancholy rumination that's as much about the head as the heart.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 15, 2023
I did not care about these people and their problems even one tiny bit.
| Oct 21, 2022
It is a film that demands the presence of thoughts we put aside when surrounded by people, things we only think about when we're alone, buried in everlasting thoughts. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" is the rarest of all films...
| Sep 28, 2022
I can honestly say that “I got it” during my second viewing and my appreciation for what the movie does is unquestioned.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2022
At times it seems as if Roman Polanski adapted a rom com written by Philip K. Dick... [Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind] is the most tenebrous romantic comedy ever filmed. [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 14, 2022
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is weird and chaotic and not linear, which wonderfully mirrors what memories are like.
| Mar 26, 2021
My problem with Eternal Sunshine is I found it very surface-level
| Feb 21, 2021
There is another couplet in Eloisa to Abelard that perhaps has a bearing on the Gondry-Kaufman film: "Of all affliction taught a lover yet,/'Tis sure the hardest science to forget."
| Feb 15, 2021
Touching, tragic, inspiring, funny, hopeful, and, most importantly, powerfully romantic.
| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 29, 2020
[The film] shows us that all real relationships are worth remembering, and that the connections we have with others are something worthy enough to fight for.
| Aug 10, 2020
[Jim Carrey's] vulnerability is stunning, and he has channeled his comedic physicality into a tightly controlled performance that makes the absurd completely believable.
| Original Score: 5/5 | May 24, 2020
Without a doubt, one of the best films of all-time regarding love, heartbreak and hope. [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 15, 2020