Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
This is a tiresome interracial custody dramedy in which white non-guilt righteously dukes it out with black melodrama.

Name : Gary Goldstein / Alias : Los Angeles Times
The filmmaker and his on-screen proxies boldly go places our national discourse desperately needs to go, yet rarely does.

Name : Jordan Mintzer / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
A broad but touching dramedy about the racial barriers that divide us and the family ties that bind.

Name : Scott Foundas / Alias : Variety
Kevin Costner shines in Mike Binder's disappointingly dull and safe-playing race relations drama.

Name : Inkoo Kang / Alias : TheWrap
"If I were as unfair as director Mike Binder is to his African-American characters, I'd say this project is a white filmmaker's rationalization to have a white character occasionally say (and certainly think) the N-word while raising a black child."

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
It's tempting to say "Big Stone Gap" is greeting-card pretty and sweet, but that doesn't quite fit because these days greeting cards seem to have developed a bit of an edge. "Big Stone Gap" is edge-free.

Name : Ben Sachs / Alias : Chicago Reader
Director Adriana Trigiani, adapting her best-selling novel, delivers the hackneyed material with good cheer, eliciting bright performances from an [excellent] ensemble cast.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
Good nature counts for something, but it's all so comfy you may fall asleep.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
Apparently too close to the story to recognize how ill suited she was to translating its charms to the screen, Trigiani has emerged with nothing but corny, stilted Americana, like something Garrison Keillor might burp out on a really off day.

Name : Gary Goldstein / Alias : Los Angeles Times
That the creaky romantic comedy "Big Stone Gap" attracted such a large ensemble of talented name actors only makes this country-fried turkey feel like an even more notable miss.

Name : Randy Cordova / Alias : Arizona Republic
Nothing feels believable in "Big Stone Gap," a bungled, charm-free look at small-town life in the South in the late '70s.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
By the time we get to the final, borderline ludicrous moments in Big Stone Gap, I wasn't even surprised by the overwhelming sappiness of it all.

Name : Jen Chaney / Alias : Washington Post
The warmth of spirit behind this project allows its missteps to be mostly forgiven.

Name : Molly Eichel / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
The plot itself has little momentum, and what should feel dramatic instead feels inert.

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

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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.