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By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 08 May 2014

The peculiar fascination exerted by The Galapagos Affair is a testament to our voyeuristic desire for real-life tales of odd characters in…

Review of The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014)

By Stephanie Merry (410) for Washington Post (9,851) on 07 May 2014

The Galapagos Affair spins a strange and compelling tale, with perfectly sinister music by Laura Karpman setting the mood…

Review of The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014)

By Derek Smith (382) for Tiny Mix Tapes (64) on 01 May 2014

Despite The Galapagos Affair's bloated runtime, clocking in at a shade over two hours, the two-thirds of the film that is good is a very compelling…

Review of The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014)

By Martin Dunphy (2) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 01 May 2014

With effective use of archival footage, modern interviews, and narration from survivors' journals, this doc will have viewers debating whodunit…

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By Robert Denerstein (1,148) for Movie Habit (892) on 27 Apr 2014

The Galapagos Affair is an interesting and bizarre story about the way in which noble dreams so often lead to folly…

Review of The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014)

By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 23 Apr 2014

Lingers instead of investigates, shaping Affair into something routine when the primal experience of life lived on an alien landscape is more…

Review of The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014)

By Marc Mohan (821) for Oregonian (1,550) on 21 Apr 2014

This compelling piece of historical detective work is, in fact, less about what people have done to the islands than about what living on the…

Review of The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014)

By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 20 Apr 2014

After building up a narrative head of steam, the film relaxes too much back into expository documentary form…

Review of The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014)

By Gerald Peary (163) for Arts Fuse (166) on 17 Apr 2014

It would take a series of spoilers to explain who might have killed whom in The Galapagos Affair…

Review of The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014)

By James Verniere (1,180) for Boston Herald (1,433) on 17 Apr 2014

Fascinating, if laboriously-titled true story with exotic locale, heated rivalries, a sexually rapacious Baroness and voice-overs by Blanchett,…

Review of The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014)

By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 16 Apr 2014

Directors Goldfine and Geller tell their story with such engaged confidence that we are swept along to its wild end…

Review of The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014)

By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 16 Apr 2014

Strauch’s orotund prose sounds much like that of Werner Herzog, but without the irony…

Review of The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014)

By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 16 Apr 2014

Though the pace occasionally flags during its two-hour running time, The Galapagos Affair is a fascinating look at a place of great beauty…

Review of The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014)

By Moira Sullivan (52) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 14 Apr 2014

This assemblage is generally well-constructed…

Review of The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014)

By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Apr 2014

What should be a gripping, true crime/mystery story gets often bogged down by a lack of focus from filmmakers Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller,…

Review of The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014)

By Robert Everett-Green (9) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 10 Apr 2014

Geller and Goldfine keep the story taut and engaging, except when they get distracted by the current inhabitants of Floreana, who say mostly…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 09 Apr 2014

There's nothing like a good story, and The Galapagos Affair: Satan Comes to Eden has a great one that grabs viewers from the first minute and…

Review of The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 08 Apr 2014

If the movie tends to sprawl a little, that only reinforces its validity; too-tidy packaging might betray the telling, nuanced weirdness of…

Review of The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 03 Apr 2014

Unfortunately, while there’s enough fascinating material here for an hour-long documentary, this one runs two hours, with most of the present-day…

Review of The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014)

By Leonard Maltin (609) for leonardmaltin.com (584) on 03 Apr 2014

Truth is usually stranger, and often more intriguing, than fiction, and this well-told narrative is a perfect example…

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