Eden

Directed by Ron Howard (R)

★★

"In a film littered with monstrous behavior, what is perhaps most shocking about Eden is the director behind it," said in Screen Daily . In most Ron Howard movies, "the best of humanity usually shines brightest." Here, he aims instead to reveal the worst, taking us to a Galápagos island in the 1930s to watch as unwelcome guests poison the wilderness utopia that a pompous real-life German doctor and his wife had begun to build. As rivalries emerge, "Howard embraces the story's demented bent," offering the viewer kinky sex and "a level of brutality unique to his oeuvre." Still, "he can't quite connect with the evil that permeates his film." Jude Law, playing the doctor, does some "enjoyable scenery chewing," and Vanessa Kirby "goes toe to toe with

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