Boston Globe by Jay Carr

Quiet, powerful, contemplative, respectful of stillness, Eureka is the first film this year in which there is obvious greatness.

New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

Wrenching performances and painstaking visual and thematic compositions.

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

Slow -- sometimes maddeningly, soporifically so.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

It's never dull -- beautifully acted and handsomely shot in sepia-toned Cinemascope.

Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern

Eureka demands active attention, but rewards it with emotional resonance, thematic complexity and a succession of images that take up permanent residence in our brains.

Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington

Never feels inflated -- and it builds to an ending of unusual power.

Philadelphia Inquirer by Desmond Ryan

A work that demands patience, and it will easily exasperate some moviegoers.

New York Magazine (Vulture) by Peter Rainer

His (Aoyama) existential odyssey is so attenuated and aloof that he turns suffering into an art thing.

New Times (L.A.) by Andy Klein

Eureka is, quite extraordinarily, never dull.

Salon by Andrew O'Hehir

You may find yourself spellbound or colossally irritated; it's a close call either way.