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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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
Delicate, lifelike filmmaking .

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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
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 : 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.

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 : Cary Darling / Alias : Dallas Morning News
An unexpectedly enjoyable science-fiction adventure that should be generating louder fanboy buzz than it has so far.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
In its second half, Outlander falls apart completely, becoming nothing but a violent, mindless monster movie along the lines of Alien vs. Predator.

Name : Rene Rodriguez / Alias : Miami Herald
There isn't a single scene in this story about a traveler from another planet who crash-lands on Earth during the Iron Age that doesn't remind you of another, better movie.

Name : Roger Ebert / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
I am tempted to describe the plot of Outlander as preposterous, but a movie about an alien spaceship crashing into a Viking fjord during the Iron Age is likely to be preposterous.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Boston Globe
By taking nonsense seriously Outlander never achieves camp. It's a comic book that's mistaken itself for scripture.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
Outlander is a cheesy, low-budget, space alien Viking monster movie. And seemingly proud of it.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
In Outlander, the nuttiest hunk of junk in many months, Viking warriors and a stoic intergalactic traveler join forces to combat an enormous beetle with whiplash stingers.

Name : Tom Keogh / Alias : Seattle Times
You can think about Outlander 16 different ways, and still arrive at the same conclusion: It just doesn't work.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
An enjoyably goofy hybrid of extraterrestrial sci-fi and Iron Age action.

Name : Tasha Robinson / Alias : AV Club
An odd mishmash of genres with too much message and musing to be propulsive, and too much cornball monster movie to take seriously. But while the blend may not satisfy fans of pure action or pure drama, at least it gives them both a new flavor to try.

Name : Roger Moore / Alias : Orlando Sentinel
One of the more outlandish B-pictures to come out of the Great Movie Mash-up Machine known as The Weinstein Co.

Name : Tom Huddlestone / Alias : Time Out
Daft, obvious but hugely enjoyable, 'Outlander' is superior trash.

Name : Melissa Anderson / Alias : Village Voice
It centers on electrifying newcomer Arielle Holmes as a homeless junkie named Harley, a character largely shaped by the performer's own extremely recent past.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
Unpleasant moral ambiguity is served boiling hot in this drug-poisoned love story.

Name : Michael Rechtshaffen / Alias : Los Angeles Times
When going for gritty realism, it doesn't hurt to have your lead actress essentially playing herself.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
Fans of the cinematic street poet Larry Clark (Kids, Bully) might go for this, though the unexpected moments of dignity and compassion that deepen his characters are in short supply here.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
By the end of Heaven Knows What, you see Ilya's fragile, unguarded soul through Harley's eyes, and the film's discordances sound like the music of the spheres.

Name : Peter Keough / Alias : Boston Globe
All this desperation and squalor reeks of authenticity.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
Holmes has a face that reveals everything and nothing. Besides being strikingly photogenic, she's a natural.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
It's just a portrait of emptiness, but it feels a lot like the real thing.

Name : David Rooney / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
It also helps that Holmes, Jones and Duress, as well as the mainly non-actors in secondary roles, all inhabit their characters with real conviction.

Name : Nicolas Rapold / Alias : New York Times
At the very least, the directors, Josh and Benny Safdie, have created a small, beautiful classic of street theater by rendering these public disputes within a vibrant Manhattan setting through ingenious photography.

Name : Scott Foundas / Alias : Variety
For much of the movie, [the Safdies] keep the camera discomfitingly close to the characters, blurring out the background and immersing us in their telescoped world.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
Heaven Knows What quickly obtains an oddly charming rhythm, a sense of eavesdropping on sometimes unlikable, but fully realized, social outsiders.

Name : Cary Darling / Alias : Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
A striking portrait of addiction that doesn't say anything new - drugs are bad, kids - but it leaves a lasting and chilling impression.

Name : Andrew O'Hehir / Alias : Salon.com
I'm glad I saw this film; considered on its own merits, in terms of what I understand as its artistic goals, it's a wrenching and finely wrought piece of work.

Name : Bob Mondello / Alias : NPR
Heaven Knows What [has] a backstory precisely as fraught as what happens on screen. And that's pretty fraught.

Name : Barry Hertz / Alias : Globe and Mail
Although the film is raw, intense and even beautiful at times, the queasy knowledge of how it all came together constantly threatens to uproot any artistry.

Name : Joshua Rothkopf / Alias : Time Out
Even if you don't know the place used to be called Needle Park, Josh and Benny Safdie's extraordinary indie will put you in mind of that 1971 NYC classic. It may even become one itself.

Name : Mike D'Angelo / Alias : AV Club
One junkie story tends to be much like another, so give brothers Josh and Benny Safdie credit for crafting one that's genuinely distinctive.

Name : Richard Brody / Alias : New Yorker
New York-based brothers Josh and Benny Safdie look past Manhattan's glossy surfaces to reveal an underworld of homeless young heroin addicts hidden in plain sight.

Name : Danny King / Alias : Village Voice
Together, the images and the sounds turn Harley's reality into a pulverizing grind from which escape is barely even a distant thought.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Heaven Knows What feels like an authentic, sometimes painfully accurate portrait of life in New York City as experienced by the homeless, ever-hustling teenagers.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
Obeys many conventions of the genre, trying its best to plunge viewers into a world that, while seemingly liberated of bourgeois proprieties, is actually a narrowly constricted prison of desperation and need.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
There's never a false moment.