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Eureka
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78 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 22 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 22
  3. Negative: 0 out of 22
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  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    Understated acting and brilliant use of wide-screen black-and-white cinematography.
  2. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    100
    Quiet, powerful, contemplative, respectful of stillness, Eureka is the first film this year in which there is obvious greatness.
  3. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    100
    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.
  4. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Sean Axmaker
    100
    Aoyama's monochrome images are filled with a simple shadowy beauty and his scenes are rich in tender sensitivity and empathy.
  5. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Amy Taubin
    90
    A film of rare tenderness and mystery.
  6. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    90
    To watch this film, in short, can be a transforming experience.
  7. Variety
    Reviewed by: David Rooney
    90
    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.
  8. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    88
    Wrenching performances and painstaking visual and thematic compositions.
  9. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    83
    Slow -- sometimes maddeningly, soporifically so.
  10. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    80
    It's never dull -- beautifully acted and handsomely shot in sepia-toned Cinemascope.
  11. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    80
    Eerily compelling.
  12. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Peter Brunette
    80
    A completely different order of cinematic existence than any other film you're likely to see in the near or distant future.
  13. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Joe Morgenstern
    80
    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.
  14. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Fred Camper
    80
    The compositions and camera movement are both precise and elegant.
  15. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    75
    Never feels inflated -- and it builds to an ending of unusual power.
  16. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    75
    Special note should be made of real-life sister and brother Aoi and Masaru Miyazaki, who give beautiful performances as the children.
  17. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Desmond Ryan
    75
    A work that demands patience, and it will easily exasperate some moviegoers.
  18. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    70
    His (Aoyama) existential odyssey is so attenuated and aloof that he turns suffering into an art thing.
  19. New Times (L.A.)
    Reviewed by: Andy Klein
    70
    Eureka is, quite extraordinarily, never dull.
  20. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Nicole Arthur
    60
    The film's loveliness does much to modulate its often maddening pace.
  21. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    50
    You may find yourself spellbound or colossally irritated; it's a close call either way.
  22. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    50
    Eureka never comes to life. -- In pursuing its aesthetic agenda so single-mindedly, the movie leaves the characters behind in the muck.
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