Eden

  • 2013


MOVIE IS shockingly momentary american emotional
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82 % Fresh
$ 0 Million
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Positive Reviews 36
Negative reviews 5
Average Rating 3.6/5
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4.5
Truthfully, theres a shockingly small amount of sex and even less nudity. Indie Wire
3.0
What begins as gritty realism ends up as the usual made for cable melodramaticsan apple thats always better left unbitten. Time Out
3.0
Based looselyvery looselyon a real life horror story, Megan Griffithss drama works best in its numbing first half, as the contrast between our heroine .. Time Out
4.5
Just as Hansen Lve doesnt try to exaggerate the severity of Pauls predicament she understands that lots of adults dont end up doing what they wanted s .. Screen Daily
3.0
But the artfully shot sequences can only go so far when it comes to adding lustre to a relatively flimsy storyline. Screen Daily
4.5
This is a visceral, haunting work that will not soon be forgotten by any who see it.
4.0
This compelling indie film joins a handful of others that have brought sex trafficking out of the darkness and into the light where we can see its hor .. Spirituality And Practice
4.0
A few moments harp on the sentimental, but overall, this is a powerful addition to the small collection of films dedicated to spreading awareness of t .. Village Voice
2.2
However, its not a very comprehensive picture, brushing by salient points of submission to achieve a conventional arc of consciousness punctuated with .. Blu Ray
3.0
Staged with admirable restraint, the film is provocative without being prurient, but its credibility comes under strain towards the end. Radio Times
2.5
Chungs performance has a kind of emotional remove I first considered to be canny underplaying, but its simply insufficient to convey the Stockholm syn .. Film Journal
4.5
By the time Martin gets there, in the films third act, hes lost everything else. The Guardian
4.0
Based on fact, Eden is the nom de bordel imposed on a Korean American teenager (Jamie Chung) abducted in New Mexico by an appalling gang of sex traffi .. Guardian
3.0
Eden is based on a chilling true life story and its violent denouement has the kind of randomness indicative of both reality and a kind of extremely d .. Guardian
4.0
Its hard to get audiences to view a film on this topic; Griffiths deserves credit for packaging some genuinely shocking and provocative content into a .. Flim List
2.5
A solid, well acted film sadly bereft of the threat and drama required to truly convey the horror of Chong Kims situation. Empire
3.0
The result is a solid, well acted film sadly bereft of the threat and drama required to truly convey the horror of Chong Kims situation. Empire
3.0
If we really did see 14 and 15 year olds lined up in a corrider it would be much more affecting than the sight of twentysomethings. Eye For Film
4.5
Hansen Lves momentary excursions into animation, split screen, and possibly re writing of world history are the most effective parts. Eye For Film
3.1
Chung navigates a number of tricky emotional transitions throughout the film with a subtle matter of factness that affirms the tragedy at the heart of .. Slant Magazine
4.5
But his rags to rich path with its hard work, perseverance and bourgeois education, proves far more complicated and finally more shattering than most .. The New York Times
3.0
In 1994 Korean American teenager Hyun Jae (Jamie Chung) is abducted in a bar in New Mexico, renamed Eden and added to a stable of young girls run by c .. Express
4.2
Instead, its a character study with thriller elements; it exposes you to a horrible underworld without ever beating you over the head with it. Blogs Indie Wire
2.0
8 things to watch out for this week Feature Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 multiplayer beta debuts on PS4, Monster Hunter World hits PC and Better Call Sau .. Total Film
4.5
The Bottom Line Sex trafficking survival tale should break filmmaker Megan Griffiths out of the fest circuit. Hollywood Reporter
3.0
Its based on the experiences of a real life Korean woman, Chong Kim, but you can just tell that many of the facts have been massaged. Standard
1.5
But the mechanical script strands a capable young cast in a sea of hackneyed character types and soggy platitudes. Los Angeles Times
4.0
But the story is in Chungs eyes too, as Hyun Jae gradually learns enough to push humiliation and fear aside and plot an escape. Los Angeles Times
2.5
The film proves a story can be moving without doing much heavy lifting. Oregon Live
2.0
Eden may function as an inauspicious window into the distressing real world of sex works, but its underlying story not only deserves but positively de .. Cine Vue
1.3
Its not a documentary, it isnt entertainment, and aside from Chungs intelligent, dignified performance, this sure as heck isnt art. New York Post
3.0
For half an hour, with brutish hunks abusing teens in torn clothes, we think: Sexploitation! Then stately, plump Beau Bridges appears, a corrupt feder .. Ft
3.5
The filmmaking may sometimes feel a little simplistic, but it raises issues in ways we never expect. Contact Music
4.3
The last thirty minutes of the film, which wont be spoiled here, will leave you at the edge of your seat, with a satisfying payoff thats well earned a .. Nyc Movie Guru
4.0
Now comes Eden, an American film that seems as seriously intended and free of salaciousness as possible while still giving the subject its appropriate .. New Republic
4.5
Eden is disturbing in that it shows not only degradation, but how we have the ability to become accustomed to it and accepting of it. Ion Cinema
4.5
Her scenes with Matt OLearys relentlessly unnerving Vaughan are also genuinely intense and completely convincing. Theepoch Times
4.5
But its clear that spinning vinyl records makes Paul feel a kind of centripetal force, as if hes pulling the world into his orbit. Vulture
4.5
A storyteller and self mythologizer (as with Jack London, theres clearly an autobiographical kick to many of Martins tales), our hero essentially buys .. Vulture
4.5
Griffiths makes gripping drama from it all, thanks to an observant camera and nuanced characters. Stream On Demand At Home
3.5
Yet director Megan Griffiths has made less than the usual action flick about criminals and lurid sex than a sobering look at the brisk efficiency of t .. Film Forward
3.0
Props to Griffiths for proving that it only takes a very slight shift in tone and focus to give a gory old bike a set of shiny new wheels. Little White Lies
4.5
Its truly harrowing material, made all the more disturbing by its basis in reality.
4.5
He meets Arturos sister, Elena (Jessica Cressy), and falls hard, instantly. Providence Journal



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