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Eden
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63 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
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  1. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: F. X. Feeney
    80
    This portrait of an imploding marriage is remarkable for every reason that counts in a good film.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    80
    A picture so modest and minor-key that the emotional bruise it leaves may take days to develop.
  3. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Ruthe Stein
    75
    A compelling Irish drama.
  4. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Ray Bennett
    70
    Well crafted and acted, Declan Recks' Irish domestic drama Eden, adapted from his own play by Eugene O'Brien, offers an intimate portrait of a husband and wife who have stopped communicating with each other.
  5. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    70
    Thrumming with anguish and erotic vitality, Eden paints a heartbreaking portrait of a newly affluent country (freed from dour priests, whiskey-soaked revolutionaries and shawl-clad women) afflicted with emotional growing pains.
  6. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    67
    Eden lacks the technique to give its stifled domestic-erotic feelings their full power.
  7. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Joe Neumaier
    60
    This domestic drama from the producers of "Once" could be about the pair from that gentle romance - a decade later.
  8. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Sheri Linden
    60
    Director Declan Recks underlines every emotion, every brooding pause, working against the spare dialogue with fancy-footwork camera moves and an insistent score.
  9. Variety
    Reviewed by: Ronnie Scheib
    60
    Picture loses its delicate edge when it builds to a prescribed dramatic flashpoint within an overly compressed timeframe
  10. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    50
    An Irish indie that is well-observed and well-acted - but ultimately, not much more exciting than the love lives of its lead characters.
  11. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Steven Rea
    50
    Although its low-key realism is admirable, Eden doesn't really work: the long silences, the aching stares, the telling props, Breda's quivering blues, Billy's drunkenness, his distraction. There might as well be a sign stuck to the Farrells' front door: Dysfunctional family lives here.
  12. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    50
    Eden is "Once" after two kids and 10 years of marriage have sucked the music out of life.
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