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Avg. Critic Score: 89 out of 100 Universal acclaim Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
17 Iffy for 17+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    Not only (Kaufman's) most accessible and romantic screenplay, it's his most complete. The third act works like a charm and pulls all his themes, characters and conflicts together beautifully. Read full review

  • 100
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Watching Eternal Sunshine, you don't just watch a love story -- you fall in love with what love really is. Read full review

  • 90
    Washington Post | Michael O'Sullivan

    Neither wholly cynical nor wholly romantic, Kaufman's story is a balance of smarts and sentiment. It's the most fully realized working out of his two favorite obsessions: the subjective nature of experience and the psychological mysteries of pair bonding. Read full review

  • 90
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    If films about coping with memory loss and/or reverse-order storytelling now constitute a mini-genre, then Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is arguably the best of the lot. Read full review

  • 90
    Los Angeles Times | Manohla Dargis

    A memory play and a sleight of hand, Eternal Sunshine is more than anything else deeply sincere. Like Spike Jonze, who directed "Adaptation" and "Being John Malkovich," Gondry succeeds principally by balancing Kaufman's churning skepticism with unflinching hope. Read full review

  • 88
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Chases so many ideas that it threatens to spin out of control. But with our multiplexes stuffed with toxic Hollywood formula, it's a gift to find a ballsy movie that thinks it can do anything, and damn near does. Read full review

  • 88
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Despite jumping through the deliberately disorienting hoops of its story, Eternal Sunshine has an emotional center, and that's what makes it work. Read full review

  • 88
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    It is by turns comic, dark and surprisingly tender. If one must reduce it to simple description, call it a love story with a twist. Or a twisted love story. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    The thinking is shallow. The emotions are tepid. But the creativity is dazzling. If that sounds like a slam, consider that most Hollywood screenplays are predictable, rote and functional -- and those are the good ones, folks. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | Elvis Mitchell

    This angular and intelligent romantic comedy isn't entirely consistent. Even as you laugh, it's a movie you admire more than love. Read full review


Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 17+ Imaginative, loopy romance is for adults only.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie has extremely strong language and very explicit sexual references and situations. Characters drink and smoke cigarettes and marijuana.
  • Families can talk about which memories they might think about erasing and which ones they will always make sure to keep. They might also like to look up the meaning of the word "Lacuna," talk about some of their favorite quotations and read some of the brilliant poetry of Alexander Pope.
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Not an issue
What to watch for
  • violence false0 Violence: Characters in some peril.
  • sex false5 Sex: Very explicit sexual references and situations.
  • language false5 Language: Extremely strong language.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Drinking, smoking, and drug use.

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