Avis Metacritic

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

Wrenching performances and painstaking visual and thematic compositions.

Slow -- sometimes maddeningly, soporifically so.

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.

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

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

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

Eureka is, quite extraordinarily, never dull.

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

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