VarietyA splendidly demented gumbo of Hitchcock thriller, American Gothic fairy tale and a contemporary kink all Park's own.
New York MagazineThe problem with Park Chan-Wook is that there's no real drama in his worldview. The drive toward cruelty is absolute -- and ...
Village VoiceA Hitchcockian stew of hothouse familial jealousy, sadism, and psychosis all tied together by one teenage girl's homicidal c...
Salon ArtsOldboy director Park Chan-wook's first American movie is so bad I wonder whether his other movies were ever good.
Chicago Sun-TimesWhat sets Stoker apart are the exquisitely grotesque bursts of death, which usually occur only after an effectively maddenin...
Chicago TribuneAs it becomes more and more delirious in its explanations of Charlie's past, Stoker at least gives you a few images to remem...
Entertainment WeeklyThere is no mystery in Stoker, only ''style,'' and a stultifying sense that the world's been rigged with evil.
The Boston GlobeThe performances are excellent, but it's the direction that lifts the movie up and spins it around.
Rolling StonePark has built a hothouse of erotic tension that's primed to explode. Some will find it too much. Screw them. Park's goal is...
New York Daily NewsFull of heavingly gorgeous images that envelop a viewer before smothering them, its maddening elements eventually become too...
Wall Street JournalSpontaneity has been banished by rigid stylization, and the net effect is as lifeless as a severed head that turns up in a b...
The New York TimesIt may be Mr. Park's reputation that induces a state of queasy anticipation in the early scenes of Stoker. But it is also, u...
Los Angeles TimesA bizarrely perverse, beautifully rendered mystery that you may or may not care to solve.
New York PostSure, it's got its horror aspects. But for my money, this movie belongs alongside Secretary, Ginger Snaps and Thirteen in th...
The Philadelphia InquirerA beautifully twisted, slow-burning psychothriller that may or may not all be taking place inside India's head, Stoker marks...
San Francisco ChronicleStoker is a thriller in which the big question is not "What will happen next?" but rather "What is going on?"
Washington PostStoker plays out like a Kabuki Macbeth: gallons of style slathered on a story you already know by heart.
Total FilmPark Chan-wook brings operatic finesse to generic material in his tight-wound, wickedly weird US debut. And Mia Wasikowska n...
The GuardianPark Chan-wook's English-language debut is a family mystery dressed up as a gothic fairytale whose symbolism might leave you...
Film School RejectsPark Chan-wook’s visual brilliance is on full display here; Matthew Goode does creepy quite well; wonderfully warped sense o...
FirstShowingPark delivers a stirring oddity full of spectacle and some of the most gorgeous music and cinematography put together on scr...
/FilmI enjoyed looking at it — watching the film with Clint Mansell‘s score isolated might be quite nice — but I could never for...
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Partial Film Information
Director: Chan-wook Park
Writer: Wentworth Miller
Studio: Fox Searchlight
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, Dermot Mulroney
Release: March 1, 2013
Writer: Wentworth Miller
Studio: Fox Searchlight
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, Dermot Mulroney
Release: March 1, 2013
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