Patrick Gamble CineVue Jul 17, 2020 2/5

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.

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John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter Jul 17, 2020

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

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Monica Riese Austin Chronicle Jul 17, 2020

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

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David Parkinson Radio Times Jul 17, 2020 3/5

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

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Joe Bendel Epoch Times 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.

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Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com Aug 8, 2019

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.

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C.J. Prince Way Too Indie Jun 21, 2019

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

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Sean Axmaker Seanax.com Apr 15, 2016

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

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Jamie S. Rich Oregonian Aug 1, 2013 2.5/5

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.

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Eddie Harrison The List Jul 24, 2013 4/5

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

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Philip French Observer (UK) Jul 21, 2013

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

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Amber Wilkinson Eye for Film Jul 19, 2013 3/5

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

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Charlotte O'Sullivan London Evening Standard Jul 19, 2013 3/5

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.

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Allan Hunter Daily Express (UK) Jul 19, 2013 3/5

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

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Peter Bradshaw Guardian Jul 18, 2013 3/5

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.

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Matthew Turner ViewLondon Jul 18, 2013 4/5

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

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David Jenkins Little White Lies Jul 18, 2013 3/5

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.

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Nigel Andrews Financial Times Jul 18, 2013 3/5

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.

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Rich Cline Contactmusic.com Jul 18, 2013 3.5/5

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

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Neil Alcock Empire Magazine Jul 15, 2013 3/5

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

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