Hemingway's Garden of Eden
Roadside Attractions | Release Date: December 10, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
28
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
5
Negative:
4
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenDec 9, 2010
Handsomely presented, with locations in Spain and Africa, the film at moments accomplishes its ambitions of being a tart piece of steamed-up Jazz Age storytelling. Read full review
50
MovielineMichelle OrangeDec 7, 2010
Though based on the Hemingway novel published 25 years after his death, Hemingway's Garden of Eden feels more like the result of an ungodly alliance between Harlequin house writers and the cut-and-paste masterminds at A&E Biography. Read full review
50
Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonDec 7, 2010
Director John Irvin, whose hapless 40-plus-year résumé runs from early Schwarzenegger to late Harold Pinter, never gets in the way, but the resulting sangria cocktail is mild, unchallenging, and kinda dull. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanDec 10, 2010
While Suvari is especially miscast as a sophisticate, only Richard E. Grant, as a worldly Brit, seems to understand the text. Read full review
40
Time OutKeith UhlichDec 7, 2010
For an especially egregious bit of miscasting, look no further than Mena Suvari, star of this tony adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's posthumously published novel about a disintegrating marriage. Read full review
33
The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayDec 9, 2010
The film isn't erotic or profound. It is occasionally comic, though-like reading the finalists for one of those Bad Sex In Fiction awards. Read full review
30
VarietyRonnie ScheibDec 9, 2010
Garden of Eden sends sleek, half-nude bodies glumly cavorting through lush Riviera landscapes in a paradigm of unintentional camp. Read full review
12
New York PostKyle SmithDec 10, 2010
Everybody flirts with everyone else as director John Irvin pours on a level of shopping-mall-gift-shop-kitsch that would shame Wayne Newton. Read full review
0
The New York TimesStephen HoldenDec 9, 2010
For all the cinematic crimes against him, there has been no book-to-screen translation of his work quite as atrocious as Hemingway's Garden of Eden. Read full review
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