[Winslet & Carrey] were liberated as Clementine and Joel — both quietly heartbreaking.

...giving us an ending that is more painfully honest and, as a result, more romantic.

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...

Two decades later, Michel Gondry's landmark feature still impresses: a magical, meticulous, and authentically devastating triumph that finds poetry in the banal (but no less excruciating) angst of human relationships.