Eden

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Eden

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2025

2h 9m

Adventure

Mystery & Thriller

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Director Ron Howard's Eden unravels the shocking true story of a group of disillusioned outsiders who abandon modern society in search of a new beginning. Settling on a remote, uninhabited island, their utopian dream quickly unravels as they discover that the greatest threat isn't the brutal climate or deadly wildlife, but each other. What follows is a chilling descent into chaos where tensions spiral, desperation takes hold, and a twisted power struggle leads to betrayal, violence, and the deaths of half the colony.

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Critics Consensus

A cohesive theme gets marooned in Eden's melodramatic dramatization of a colorful true story, but it does provide a starry cast and salacious thrills as compensation.

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John Nugent

Empire Magazine

Nov 3

2/5

This is an odd attempt at satire that takes a fascinating slice of real-life stranger-than-fiction history and somehow makes it less interesting.

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Rex Reed

Observer

Aug 28

1/4

No character is developed seriously or deeply enough to reach more than the most superficial surface identity.

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Justin Chang

The New Yorker

Aug 26

Its title notwithstanding, “Eden” is a drama of paradise despoiled. The movie, to my eyes, badly miscalculates the ratio of paradise to despoilment, indulging the latter at the expense of the former.

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Whang Yee Ling

The Straits Times (Singapore)

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3/5

The Survivor reality series has never been so luridly entertaining.

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Robert W. Butler

Butler's Cinema Scene

Jan 6

C

“Eden” looks good (the cinematographer is Mathias Herndl) and there are some moments of involving physical action, but far from making a big statement the film seems satisfied with silliness.

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Tim Miller

Cape Cod Wave Magazine

Jan 5

4/4

Director Ron Howard presents a stranger-than-fiction true story about three groups of people, all with different motivations, who arrive on a previously uninhabited Galapados island in Ecuador around 1930. Power struggles and violence ensue.

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Oct 13

This is a tough one to rate. The performances and all technical aspects were great. Watching what humans are capable of in some situations, more painful than anticipated for me.

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Sep 23

It's an okay movie, but really feels biased as to the one version of the story. I got the impression that there was an obligation to tell the story a certain way out of respect of the family and also due to conditions of being allowed to use the book about the incident for the movie. That is was something that actually occurred is really fascinating but the movie makes most of the people in it very one dimensional while elevating other to being more clever. If this were an actual documentary it could've had the possibility of giving people more depth, but I understand that it was based on one perspective which isn't a medium that would allow anything but speculation on the motives of others there's no way to actually know what the others were thinking. But that also makes the film feel rather unbalanced. All the same, I don't regret seeing it, it was history I didn't know about and it was very interesting to go home and look up what happened.

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Sep 16

Loved it!!! This movies was twisted until the very end.

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Sep 14

Very slow pace, you can’t really connect with the characters and wasn’t very interesting.

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Sep 9

Didnt realize it was a true story. I enjoyed Sydney sweenys characters quiet strength. I think Ana deserves award recognition

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Sep 6

it was too drawn out but had a great storyline about 45 minutes in!

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Synopsis

Director Ron Howard's Eden unravels the shocking true story of a group of disillusioned outsiders who abandon modern society in search of a new beginning. Settling on a remote, uninhabited island, their utopian dream quickly unravels as they discover that the greatest threat isn't the brutal climate or deadly wildlife, but each other. What follows is a chilling descent into chaos where tensions spiral, desperation takes hold, and a twisted power struggle leads to betrayal, violence, and the deaths of half the colony.

Director: Ron Howard
Producer: Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Karen Lunder, Stuart Ford, William M. Connor, Patrick Newall
Screenwriter: Noah Pink
Distributor: Vertical
Production Co: Imagine Entertainment, AGC Studios
Rating: R
Genre: Adventure, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 22, 2025, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 24, 2025
Box Office (Gross USA): $1.6M
Runtime: 2h 9m
Aspect Ratio: Digital 2.39:1

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