Rolling Stone
"Gondry and the pitch-perfect actors have crafted a remarkable film that can coax a smile about making the same mistakes in love and then sneak up and quietly break your heart." 04/01/2004 p.96Premiere
"[A] masterpiece....Kate Winslet is truly remarkable....The supporting cast is brilliant..." 04/01/2004 p.22-4 New York Times
"[Gondry] can define contradictory emotions with extraordinary clarity and alacrity. It's why he's so suited to handling much of this particular Kaufman script." 03/19/2004 p.E13 Los Angeles Times
"ETERNAL SUNSHINE is more than anything else deeply sincere." 03/19/2004 p.E1 Entertainment Weekly
"Watching ETERNAL SUNSHINE, you don't just watch a love story - you fall in love with what love really is." 03/26/2004 p.50-1 Chicago Sun-Times
"ETERNAL SUNSHINE has an emotional center, and that's what makes it work." 03/19/2004 p.27 USA Today
"Going to the movies would be an eternally wondrous experience if more movies were as smart, ambitious, offbeat and emotionally rich as ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND." 03/19/2004 p.1E Box Office
"There's a tenderness and a wistfulness to Kaufman's writing and Carrey's performance..." 05/01/2004 p.31 Uncut
"It's another screenwriting triumph for the prodigiously gifted Charlie Kaufman, directed with visionary panache by Michel Gondry." 11/01/2004 p.157 Ultimate DVD
5 stars out of 5 -- "ETERNAL SUNSHINE is a profound and heart-clenching romantic fantasy....This is a film to own and cherish forever." 08/01/2007 p.85 | 
