Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
The years in this movie don't really amount to much. It's stuck between disco shallowness and grown-up wisdom - like a turntable, it's spinning endlessly.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
A viewer is always aware that they are being shown a place and an era, which helps explain how Eden manages the tricky business of being a movie that is overtly about lost time, but which unfolds chronologically, without as much as a flashback.

Name : Stephanie Zacharek / Alias : Village Voice
Even if you know nothing about techno, let alone garage, Hansen-Love's exploration of the ways music can nourish you or swallow you whole is instantly, perhaps painfully, recognizable.

Name : Ben Sachs / Alias : Chicago Reader
The camerawork is so fluid and the settings so brimming with detail that one feels washed away by the film, recognizing the hero's decline only when he does-that is, too late.

Name : Jon Frosch / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Eden is indeed as low-key as anything Hansen-Love has done, though it conveys a sense of risk that feels new for her - both in the scope of the story and in specific choices she makes.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Hansen-Love is an assured and naturally empathetic director who specializes in making us care more about her characters than seems likely at the outset.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
I think the triumph of the film itself is its centrifugal force, its dispersed palette, its constant movement away from a center - the reverse direction of those records on Paul's Technics turntable.

Name : Mark Jenkins / Alias : NPR
A subtle portrait of an EDM Adam, Eden is neither a star-is-born fable nor a soul-is-lost parable.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
Delicate, lifelike filmmaking .

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
An intimate epic to sink into; it uses the unchanging age of its actors, whose characters stubbornly resist changing for two decades, as a melancholy commentary on the maturation process.

Name : Jeannette Catsoulis / Alias : New York Times
Perceptive and compassionate, "Eden" recognizes how the thrill of artistic freedom can curdle in the heat of the marketplace and the demands of daily life. Yet the movie's refusal to foster regret, or have Paul repudiate his passion, is telling.

Name : Christopher Tarantino / Alias : Time Out
At one point, Paul describes his music as "somewhere between euphoria and melancholy," which is also an apt description of Eden itself.

Name : Andrew Barker / Alias : Variety
Hansen-Love, who co-wrote the script along with her former-DJ brother Sven, zeroes in on the signature experiences of '90s club life with expert precision.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
If the result feels anesthetized, that could be seen as a tribute to the music, which remains ecstatically dull; when you are lost in it, the movie implies, the rest of life - and even time itself - can pass you by.

Name : Mark Jenkins / Alias : NPR
A subtle portrait of an EDM Adam, Eden is neither a star-is-born fable nor a soul-is-lost parable.

Name : Jon Frosch / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Eden is indeed as low-key as anything Hansen-Love has done, though it conveys a sense of risk that feels new for her - both in the scope of the story and in specific choices she makes.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
Delicate, lifelike filmmaking .

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
A viewer is always aware that they are being shown a place and an era, which helps explain how Eden manages the tricky business of being a movie that is overtly about lost time, but which unfolds chronologically, without as much as a flashback.

Name : Stephanie Zacharek / Alias : Village Voice
Even if you know nothing about techno, let alone garage, Hansen-Love's exploration of the ways music can nourish you or swallow you whole is instantly, perhaps painfully, recognizable.

Name : Ben Sachs / Alias : Chicago Reader
The camerawork is so fluid and the settings so brimming with detail that one feels washed away by the film, recognizing the hero's decline only when he does-that is, too late.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Hansen-Love is an assured and naturally empathetic director who specializes in making us care more about her characters than seems likely at the outset.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
I think the triumph of the film itself is its centrifugal force, its dispersed palette, its constant movement away from a center - the reverse direction of those records on Paul's Technics turntable.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
An intimate epic to sink into; it uses the unchanging age of its actors, whose characters stubbornly resist changing for two decades, as a melancholy commentary on the maturation process.

Name : Jeannette Catsoulis / Alias : New York Times
Perceptive and compassionate, "Eden" recognizes how the thrill of artistic freedom can curdle in the heat of the marketplace and the demands of daily life. Yet the movie's refusal to foster regret, or have Paul repudiate his passion, is telling.

Name : Andrew Barker / Alias : Variety
Hansen-Love, who co-wrote the script along with her former-DJ brother Sven, zeroes in on the signature experiences of '90s club life with expert precision.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
The years in this movie don't really amount to much. It's stuck between disco shallowness and grown-up wisdom - like a turntable, it's spinning endlessly.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
If the result feels anesthetized, that could be seen as a tribute to the music, which remains ecstatically dull; when you are lost in it, the movie implies, the rest of life - and even time itself - can pass you by.

Name : Christopher Tarantino / Alias : Time Out
At one point, Paul describes his music as "somewhere between euphoria and melancholy," which is also an apt description of Eden itself.