Eden may function as an inauspicious window into the distressing real world of sex works, but its underlying story not only deserves but positively demands a far more considerate and attentive approach than is shown here.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 17, 2020

[T]he picture takes a non-exploitative approach to lurid material.

| Jul 17, 2020

This is a visceral, haunting work that will not soon be forgotten by any who see it.

| Jul 17, 2020

Staged with admirable restraint, the film is provocative without being prurient, but its credibility comes under strain towards the end.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 17, 2020

"Eden" addresses an important and timely topic, but the fearless performances from Chung and O'Leary will completely hook audiences on an emotional level.

| Jul 17, 2020

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.

| Aug 8, 2019

It's truly harrowing material, made all the more disturbing by its basis in reality.

| Jun 21, 2019

Griffiths makes gripping drama from it all, thanks to an observant camera and nuanced characters.

| Apr 15, 2016

Jamie Chung gives a reserved, watchful performance, but the true surprise is perpetual nice guy Beau Bridges in a nasty turn as the head trafficker.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 1, 2013

Eden surprises by managing to paint a vivid and disturbing picture of the trafficking experience within the context of a conventional thriller.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 24, 2013

It's chilling, convincing, matter-of-fact realism.

| Jul 21, 2013

Griffiths handles the exploitation with care, hinting at what goes on rather than rubbing our faces in it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 19, 2013

It's 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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 19, 2013

Harrowing true events are dramatised with surprising restraint in the low-key Eden.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 19, 2013

I would have liked to know more about the criminal setup, though leaving it unexplained gives it a greater tang of evil: a very strong performance from Chung.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 18, 2013

Engaging, sharply focussed and pointedly non-exploitative sex trafficking drama with a strong script, assured direction and a terrific central performance from Jamie Chung.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 18, 2013

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 18, 2013

For half an hour, with brutish hunks abusing teens in torn clothes, we think: "Sexploitation!" Then stately, plump Beau Bridges appears, a corrupt federal marshal resembling a gone-to-girth Timothy Spall, and the story starts.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 18, 2013

Director-cowriter Megan Griffiths refuses to sensationalise the tabloid aspects of this harrowing true story about human trafficking within the USA.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 18, 2013

A solid, well-acted film sadly bereft of the threat and drama required to truly convey the horror of Chong Kim's situation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 15, 2013