An overly bookish dissection of romance, gender and obsession.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 19, 2023

Sex has never felt more repellent after watching Eden, a clumsy effort of eroticism and psychological gamesmanship that's utterly devoid of structure and feeling. It's an awful picture.

| Original Score: D- | Mar 14, 2011

The question that occurs is not whether director Irvin hates actors but rather, how much. We can imagine him shouting to the cast: 'Once more, with less feeling. Get shallow! Can't you do worse than that?'

| Original Score: 1/10 | Jan 7, 2011

In this Riviera vacation atmosphere, all sun, sand, and skin, the dialectic of opposites the film attempts to enforce instead melts down to little more than kinky foreplay.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 18, 2010

A soft-core, Jazz Age skin flick masquerading as high art.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 14, 2010

A veteran director, the attractive lead performers and some stunning settings cannot bring credibility to this inherently stilted story.

| Original Score: C- | Dec 10, 2010

With Hemingway pictured as a wuss and laughable acting, could this be intended as camp?

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 10, 2010

Papa, they've done you wrong again, in this dreadful, miscast Hemingway adaptation.

| Dec 10, 2010

A borderline terrible movie that plays like a parody of a Hemingway story.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 10, 2010

a sexy psychological thriller much better suited for a younger crowd than the literature buffs who may be drawn to it.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2010

It just seems like a bunch of actors playing dress-up.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 10, 2010

The acting rings false and the clothes, rooms, and locations never feel lived in. You always feel aware that you are on a movie set watching actors perform.

| Dec 10, 2010

Nothing will protect the audience from this dreadful film except to stay far away from the few theaters unwise enough to show it.

| Dec 10, 2010

Everybody flirts with everyone else as director John Irvin pours on a level of shopping-mall-gift-shop-kitsch that would shame Wayne Newton.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Dec 10, 2010

Better than it might have been yet still a definite letdown, a literary B-side turned into something not awful, just forgettable.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 9, 2010

Ms. Suvari's Catherine is so extravagantly monstrous that Mr. Huston's David, who provides a desultory narration, comes across as an inert nonentity.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 9, 2010

'Hemingway's Garden' of Eden will restore no luster to the celebrity writer-adventurer.

| Dec 9, 2010

The dialogue and plot in Garden Of Eden are rendered clearly and precisely, without a lot of fine shading. The result is a movie that's all surface... all silly, silly surface.

| Original Score: D+ | Dec 9, 2010

Flirts with camp, but stifling boredom ultimately trumps any unintentional hilarity.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 9, 2010

Vet British helmer John Irvin's mannered, bloodless and appallingly thesped filmization of Hemingway's posthumous novel, though unlikely to set the author rolling in his grave, may still have viewers rolling in the aisles.

| Dec 9, 2010