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Eureka

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 22 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 2 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by: Shinji Aoyama
Directed by: Shinji Aoyama
Release Date:
Theatrical: May 4, 2001
Running Time: 217 minutes, Color / BW
Origin: Japan
Language(s): Japanese (with English subtitles)
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Koji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Masaru Miyazaki, and Yoichiro Saito
This beautifully composed black & white film explores a transcendent story of redemption. On what seemed to be a normal morning in southwest Japan, a crazed killer, apparently without motive, hijacks a city bus. In the ensuing carnage only three people survive - the driver, a schoolgirl and her older brother. (The Shooting Gallery)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Boston Globe Jay Carr
Quiet, powerful, contemplative, respectful of stillness, Eureka is the first film this year in which there is obvious greatness.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson
One of the year's best films, and certainly its most challenging so far: At more than three hours, watching it is less like consuming entertainment and more like living.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
Aoyama's monochrome images are filled with a simple shadowy beauty and his scenes are rich in tender sensitivity and empathy.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Understated acting and brilliant use of wide-screen black-and-white cinematography.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
To watch this film, in short, can be a transforming experience.
Read Full Review >Variety David Rooney
Builds steadily through a series of masterfully orchestrated modulations to a final act without shattering revelations or lofty dramatic peaks but with a quiet, formidable power.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Wrenching performances and painstaking visual and thematic compositions.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Slow -- sometimes maddeningly, soporifically so.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
It's never dull -- beautifully acted and handsomely shot in sepia-toned Cinemascope.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Fred Camper
The compositions and camera movement are both precise and elegant.
Read Full Review >Film.com Peter Brunette
A completely different order of cinematic existence than any other film you're likely to see in the near or distant future.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Eureka demands active attention, but rewards it with emotional resonance, thematic complexity and a succession of images that take up permanent residence in our brains.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Desmond Ryan
A work that demands patience, and it will easily exasperate some moviegoers.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
Never feels inflated -- and it builds to an ending of unusual power.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
Special note should be made of real-life sister and brother Aoi and Masaru Miyazaki, who give beautiful performances as the children.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine Peter Rainer
His (Aoyama) existential odyssey is so attenuated and aloof that he turns suffering into an art thing.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Nicole Arthur
The film's loveliness does much to modulate its often maddening pace.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
Eureka never comes to life. -- In pursuing its aesthetic agenda so single-mindedly, the movie leaves the characters behind in the muck.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
You may find yourself spellbound or colossally irritated; it's a close call either way.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Sal H. gave it a 10:
If you have seen this movie, qou know how life can be hard & beautiful at times.
Jaime C. gave it a 10:
The best film of 2001.
