"If this one doesn't make my year-end Top 10, that means we're due for at least ten more movies as brilliantly entertaining as this one. Somehow I doubt that's going to happen."
-- Scott Weinberg, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"... one of those movies that dares to be about something"
-- Willie Waffle, WAFFLEMOVIES.COM
"Blisteringly funny, thought-provoking and heartfelt romance."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"The pairing of Carrey and Winslet may sound like a stretch, but both make it work with terrific performances."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"Another home run for Charlie Kaufman! Carrey and Winslet are fantastic! 10 on a scale of 1 to 10!"
-- John Venable, SUPERCALA.COM
"...the story抯 brilliance shines through despite some minor problems."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES (U.S.)
"Like other Kaufman screenplays, this one is devilishly hard to make both lucid and entertaining, but Gondry succeeds on both counts, pulling the audience into an increasingly dark, suspenseful and even touching psychological adventure."
-- Gary Thompson, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
"Spreads the brightest cinematic sunbeams of the season."
-- David Sterritt, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
"A sort of existential love story in reverse... a white-hot starburst of extravagant emotionalism..."
-- Brent Simon, ENTERTAINMENT TODAY
"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is appropriately memorable. "
-- Gerry Shamray, SUN NEWSPAPERS OF CLEVELAND
"Feels like something entirely brand-new; such are the gifts of Kaufman and Gondry, inventors and magicians."
-- Robert Wilonsky, DALLAS OBSERVER
"An amazingly complex and yet strikingly affecting look at love, life and memory that gives us one of the great movie love stories ever told."
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"Exhilarating cinema ?entertaining and challenging, bizarre yet truthful. In many ways, it works like a dream."
-- Jeffrey Westhoff, NORTHWEST HERALD (CRYSTAL LAKE, IL)
"Fascinating, perplexing, occasionally confusing, and often extremely funny. And ultimately, it抯 also touching."
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE
"Dazzles as its predecessors did, but its core of melancholy and heartbreak makes it a harder experience to shake off."
-- Scott Von Doviak, CULTUREVULTURE.NET
"Ao contr醨io da t閏nica que apresenta em sua trama, certamente ser?lembrado por muito tempo."
-- Pablo Villaca, CINEMA EM CENA
"Like footprints in the sand of a Montauk beach, no one leaves much of an impression."
-- James Verniere, BOSTON HERALD
"It cheerfully dives down the rabbit hole while other films are searching for the exit, reminding us that happiness -- true happiness -- has no easy answers."
-- Rob Vaux, FLIPSIDE MOVIE EMPORIUM
"Daffy, gratifyingly inventive."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"Another unpleasantly glib, shallow demonstration of Kaufman's self-satisfied cleverness, further marred by failed pretensions to profundity about romantic destiny."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"The movie is so inventive and beautiful that I don't see how it can be overlooked when next year's awards are given out."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
"Both embraces and transcends the quirkiness of Kaufman's previous efforts, forming a moving, inspired mediation on the funny-sad nature of love. "
-- Gabriel Shanks, MIXED REVIEWS
"Breaks the mold, harnessing some of the same energy and imagination to create a highly original love story."
-- Mark Sells, OREGON HERALD
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