65.2% from 31 members

Not just the most inventive film of the year, but one of the most emotional, moving and intelligent too - GQ Magazine
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Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Elijah Wood
Director: Michel Gondry
Certificate: 
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND is an unconventional romance told in the abstract, inventive, and comedic storytelling style of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. Like his scripts for ADAPTATION and BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, this plot works off of a relatively complex idea that is easier explained ..read more »
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66%
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A very simple, sweet love story that left me humming with pleasure - Tom Charity *****

A sad, funny, magical and almost irresistibly moving experience - Radio Times *****
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Lost In Translation
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi
Director: Sofia Coppola
Certificate: 
An American film star out to make a commercial in Tokyo meets up with a photographer's wife in a hotel bar. These two people are lonely and having to contend with a foreign language and a new culture. A friendship begins.
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61%
from 86,447 members

A delightful movie from a real artist. It's unreasonably funny, romantic and imaginative - Tom Charity ****
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The Science Of Sleep
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Emma De Caunes
Director: Michel Gondry
Certificate: 
The Science of Sleep, a playful romantic fantasy set inside the topsy-turvy brain of Stephane Miroux (Gael Garcia Bernal) an eccentric young man whose dreams constantly invade his waking life. Stephane pines for next-door neighbor, Stephanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg), but she becomes confused by his ..read more »
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61%
from 18,455 members

Truthful, touching, insightful and inspiringly fresh - Sunday Express
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Garden State
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard
Director: Zach Braff
Certificate: 
Aspiring actor living in Los Angles, Andrew "Large" Largeman (Braff) has managed to avoid a visit to his hometown in New Jersey and the inevitable confrontation with his father. But as he reconnects with the place once he returns, a twist of fate introduces him to Sam (Portman), a quirky young ..read more »
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65%
from 48,543 members

It's basically a story about a lonely boy who just wants to hold hands with a girl. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll feel wonderfully warm & fuzzy - Darren Bignell *****
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WALL-E
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Fred Willard, Jeff Garlin, Ben Burtt
Director: Andrew Stanton
Certificate: 
The year is 2700 and the Earth is polluted, barren and exhausted. Wall-E is the last of a group of clean-up robots, sent to restore the Earth by lifting and compressing the endless quantities of rubbish left behind by a human race that has withdrawn to the safety of space.
Wall-E spends every ..read more »
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77%
from 64,792 members

Successfully blends romance, comedy and religion into a thoughtful and entertaining mix that benefits from the wonderful chemistry between the leads - Radio Times ***
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Keeping The Faith
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Ben Stiller, Jenna Elfman, Edward Norton
Director: Edward Norton
Certificate: 
In actor Edward Norton's directorial debut, Brian (Norton), a priest, and his best friend, Jake (Ben Stiller), a rabbi, both fall in love with their long-lost childhood friend, Anna (Jenna Elfman), who has returned to Manhattan to pursue her hectic business career. However, Brian has taken a vow of ..read more »
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62%
from 6,288 members

A shameless tearjerker and as corny as they come, this retro romantic drama skilfully pushes all the right emotional buttons - Radio Times ***
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The Notebook
(2004)
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Certificate: 
A sweeping love story told by a man reading from his faded notebook to a woman in a nursing home. The Notebook follows the lives of two North Carolina teens from very different worlds. Though her upbringing takes places in an antebellum mansion and he grew up in the kind of house where musicians ..read more »
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72%
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A film that is passionate, intelligent and hysterically funny in turns - Radio Times *****

A fever dream of musical spectacle. It showcases excellent work from co-stars Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor - LA Times
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Moulin Rouge
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Nicole Kidman, Jim Broadbent
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Certificate: 
Cross LA BOHEME with CABARET, throw in a little bit of RENT, and you might almost begin to describe Baz Luhrmann's visually opulent, fast-paced, funny, heartrending MOULIN ROUGE. The film, which premiered as the opener to the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, is a musical set in 1899 Paris at the ..read more »
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