Eden (2024) gives us an unhinged Ana de Armas, and for that I am forever grateful. The actress is delectably vicious and simultaneously alluring. It’s easy to hate her, and boy does Eden make us hate her.

Directed by Ron Howard from a screenplay by Noah Pink, the film is based on a true story of European survivalists who live secluded on an uninhabited Galápagos island called Floreana. The film is wild, but it’s so much fun when it leans into the pettiness of human behavior, especially as it juxtaposes the reason Dr. Friedrich Ritter (Jude Law) is there.

The film follows Friedrich and his partner Dora Strauch (Vanessa Kirby), who traveled to Floreana in 1929 to live in isolation. Friedrich is busy writing his manifesto, which he hopes will save humanity. Influenced by his work, Heinz Wittmer (Daniel Brühl), his wife Margaret (Sydney Sweeney), and son Harry (Jonathan Tittel) move to the island, much to the dismay of Friedrich and Dora. While the latter doesn’t like the Wittmers, their entire world is shaken when the Baroness Eloise Bosquet de Wagner Wehrhorn (de Armas) joins the island with an ambitious plan to build an exclusive hotel.