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What a strange new world I live in.<\/p>\n

The critics at Film Comment <\/a>have voted Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind <\/em>as the #1 film of 2005.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the same movie voted #1 by the critics at Christianity Today<\/em>!<\/p>\n

In fact, the two groups agree on FIVE of the top ten!<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t be happier about this. Thinking back to the kind of movies celebrated in so-called \u201cChristian\u201d film circles when I was a kid, I can only say: We\u2019ve come a long way, baby, back to knowing how to look at and understand art.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t misunderstand: I\u2019m not saying that Christian film critics need<\/em> to choose the same film as mainstream critics. But for decades, the religious press treated mainstream cinema as the Plague. They celebrated religious propaganda, and anything that involved reflections of the world\u2019s brokenness, or that explored spiritual questions, or that reflected the perspectives of other minds and imaginations\u2026 that was all corrupt and contagious.<\/p>\n

At last, the dialogue within Christian circles is showing signs of real transformation.<\/p>\n

And Eternal Sunshine<\/em> is, indeed, a great, rich, imaginative piece of work.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"