The R-Rated Thriller Starring Sydney Sweeney & Ana de Armas Has Just Exploded Back to Life, Hijacked Netflix’s Global Top 10, and Shocked the Streaming World With One of the Most Unbelievable Comebacks in Recent Memory — Viewers Are Now Asking How This Film Was Ever Allowed to Fail! It was supposed to be over. Written off, forgotten, and quietly pushed aside, this R-rated thriller looked destined to vanish without a trace. But now, powered by the electric pairing of Sydney Sweeney and Ana de Armas, the film has staged a jaw-dropping resurrection — surging into Netflix’s Global Top 10 and igniting a full-blown streaming frenzy.

‘Eden’ Is Now Streaming on Netflix: What Critics Are Saying About the Movie

'Eden' Is Now Streaming on Netflix: What Critics Are Saying About the Movie

Eden is finally on streaming!

The movie, originally released in August, arrived on Netflix on December 23.

Here’s a synopsis: “The shocking true story of a group of outsiders (Jude LawAna de ArmasVanessa KirbyDaniel BrühlSydney Sweeney) who settle on a remote island only to discover their greatest threat isn’t the brutal climate or deadly wildlife, but each other.”

But what do critics think?

 

Eden currently has a 57% Rotten score on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 73% audience score.

The Wall Street Journal says: “It’s nothing more than what it appears to be on the surface — an elongated and extra-campy episode of Survivor, with the important caveat that since there’s no reason to care who wins, there’s no reason to watch.”

AP gives it 2.5 out of 4, writing: “In the midst of the film’s crafted chaos, the story inevitably loses focus. Still, Eden made room for some memorable performances.”

Empire gives it 2 out of 5, writing: “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.”Eden” Is a Desert-Island Thriller That Despoils Itself | The New Yorker

IndieWire gives it a B, writing: “No film about the utter demise of a supposed utopia — a real one, to boot! — and the utter infallibility of human beings should be this fun, but we’re lucky this one is.”

Vulture says: “The pressures of the untamed setting, combined with the inability of these characters to ever trust each other, results in an over-the-top melodrama that gets loopier as it goes on. But it pulls us along, too.”

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