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Its script doesn't quite carry the dramatic heft of his earlier work, but Park Chan-wook's Stoker showcases his eye for sumptuous imagery and his affection for dark, atmospheric narratives populated by mysterious characters.
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It's too safe, too knotty, too wastefully handsome, too dull. January 3, 2014 | Full Review…
It's too safe, too knotty, too wastefully handsome, too dull.
Wesley Morris
Stoker trembles between the portentous and the ridiculous, and I think you know which one is going to win. The audience does make its decision: They've been had yet again. June 12, 2013 | Full Review…
Stoker trembles between the portentous and the ridiculous, and I think you know which one is going to win. The audience does make its decision: They've been had yet again.
David Thomson
Stoker is a movie about tension and inaction, about people trying to figure out what's going on in someone else's head. March 22, 2013 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Stoker is a movie about tension and inaction, about people trying to figure out what's going on in someone else's head.
Connie Ogle
Stoker is a cunning exercise in transgression. But one can't help but wonder what kind of film Park might have made if he'd had the full creative control to which he's accustomed in Korea. March 15, 2013 | Full Review…
Stoker is a cunning exercise in transgression. But one can't help but wonder what kind of film Park might have made if he'd had the full creative control to which he's accustomed in Korea.
Christopher Orr
None of it is life-changing, but it is effectively eerie. Stylishly spooky, even. March 15, 2013 | Rating: B | Full Review…
None of it is life-changing, but it is effectively eerie. Stylishly spooky, even.
Tom Long
"Stoker" plays out like a Kabuki "Macbeth": gallons of style slathered on a story you already know by heart. March 15, 2013 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
"Stoker" plays out like a Kabuki "Macbeth": gallons of style slathered on a story you already know by heart.
Michael O'Sullivan
The juices are flowing, the thrill, the edginess, the excitement and manipulative psychological magic of the movies is back with Stoker. November 27, 2019 | Full Review…
The juices are flowing, the thrill, the edginess, the excitement and manipulative psychological magic of the movies is back with Stoker.
Debbie Lynn Elias
Easily one of the best screenwriting debuts of recent years, Stoker is chillingly good; a stylish, visual treat. November 21, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Easily one of the best screenwriting debuts of recent years, Stoker is chillingly good; a stylish, visual treat.
Katie Smith-Wong
Stoker is an art-house film too in love with itself, squeezing faux depth out of its vacuous premise. November 19, 2019 | Rating: 2.2/5 | Full Review…
Stoker is an art-house film too in love with itself, squeezing faux depth out of its vacuous premise.
David Harris
Park directs with such lyrical assurance that, even as we're conscious of being coolly manipulated, this narcotic thriller gets under the skin and arrests the pulse, like an injection administered by a night nurse with a deeply sinister sense of humour. August 14, 2019 | Full Review…
Park directs with such lyrical assurance that, even as we're conscious of being coolly manipulated, this narcotic thriller gets under the skin and arrests the pulse, like an injection administered by a night nurse with a deeply sinister sense of humour.
Brian D. Johnson
Even if by the time it wraps itself up, and it feels like no great mystery has been unearthed, the strengths of Stoker by far make up for any of its minor deficiencies. August 7, 2019 | Full Review…
Even if by the time it wraps itself up, and it feels like no great mystery has been unearthed, the strengths of Stoker by far make up for any of its minor deficiencies.
Nicholas Bell
The visual style is eye-strokingly gorgeous, with set decoration, production design, and editing that together make up for the holes in pacing and storyline. July 30, 2019 | Full Review…
The visual style is eye-strokingly gorgeous, with set decoration, production design, and editing that together make up for the holes in pacing and storyline.
Leslie Combemale
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