[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

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

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

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

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

Cruelty, bloodletting and death are evident throughout (frequently occurring just outside the frame), and Griffith's laudable discretion actually intensifies their impact.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 2, 2013

Griffiths lays bare a many-tentacled trafficking system sickening in its reach.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 28, 2013

A quite moving performance comes from Jamie Chung as Eden, repulsion sliding into fearful acceptance without the extinction of hope.

| Mar 27, 2013

Nearly every second is taken up with the horrors inflicted upon the heroine by the sorriest bunch of good ol' boy sadists since "Deliverance."

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 22, 2013

Griffiths and her screenwriter, Rick Phillips Jr., manage the tricky business of evoking the specific horrors of sex slavery without languishing in the lurid and graphic.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 21, 2013

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 this horrific crime.

| Mar 20, 2013

[An] excruciating vision of under-age women conscripted into sexual slavery by a criminal enterprise from which there is seemingly no escape.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 19, 2013

Once bodies start piling up to a generic indie-twang score and plot turns head south of ludicrous, Eden's goodwill dissipates.

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

A unique and thought provoking picture on a subject that ought to send you into a good old fashioned blood-boiling rage.

| Original Score: B | Mar 19, 2013

The "male gaze" that often despicably and hypocritically surfaces in these kinds of films is pointedly absent throughout.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 17, 2013

Scrupulously avoiding salaciousness and overstatement, "Eden" translates a true-life tale of human trafficking into an effectively low-key, arrestingly suspenseful drama.

Full Review | Mar 15, 2012