One of the best films ever made about love and relationships

Rating: 10/10 (3 July 2005)

I won't give away any spoilers. All I will say is that I never got around to seeing this film in the theatres, and I wondered why this film was voted "Best Film" by IMDb users. Now I know. This film fully deserved to win Best Original Screenplay, and it's a crying shame it did not get more nominations, particularly for Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet (her best work since "Titanic") As much as I loved "Titanic"---and I still believe that film deserved to win Best Picture---this film is grounded in a reality that cuts deeper to the bone. It's one thing to recreate the sinking of an ocean liner in exquisite detail, but it's another to recreate the joys, sorrows, and pain that love brings out. In hindsight the debate over whether "Titanic" or "L.A. Confidential" seems rather silly. This film is better than both.