Reviews for this film from our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: la regia magnifica di Park Chan-wook, capace di inventare nuove prospettive ad ogni inquadratura e di assecondare gli incubi dei suoi personaggi, con un’eleganza calligrafica che raramente si è vista al cinema, finisce talvolta per girare a vuoto.
- Marina Antunes @ Quiet Earth
- [New – 4/3/14] | Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Sean Axmaker @ Parallax View
- Jason Bailey @ Flavorwire
- Excerpt: As bananas as it gets, Stoker’s conclusion is all of a piece with the picture, which has the surrealistic imagery and doomed inevitability of a good nightmare.
- Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Excerpt: Largely a pretext for style, but the style works.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Making his English language debut, Korean director Chan-wook Park (“Oldboy”) has chosen a psychological thriller that plays like “The Royal Tennenbaums” as directed by Claude Chabrol.
- Edwin Davies @ A Mighty Fine Blog
- Excerpt: It aims to unnerve and entertain in equal measure, and it does so with aplomb. At the very least, it’s comforting to realise that even when he switches country and language, Park Chan-Wook remains a seriously creepy filmmaker, undaunted in either his style or his ambition.
- Carlos del Río @ El rincón de Carlos del Río [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Aunque sigue teniendo el sello personal de su director (Chan-wook no se ha prostituido por un maletín lleno de dinero para hacer una castaña sin personalidad en Hollywood), tiene un guión muy flojo.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: Stoker is perhaps too cold for its own good.
- Mark Harris @ About.com
- Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: So assured and strange and perversely disturbing, Stoker would make Alfred Hitchcock proud and will make Brian De Palma envious.
- Danny King @ The King Bulletin
- Excerpt: [A] larger-than-life coming-of-age tale: the evolution of a premature girl into one thoroughly aware of her frightening capabilities.
- Oktay Ege Kozak @ Oregon Herald
- Josh Larsen @ LarsenOnFilm.com
- Excerpt: …captures the way adolescence blurs far more lines than the one between youth and adulthood.
- Marty Mapes @ Movie Habit
- Excerpt: Come for the atmosphere, but don’t stay for the plot
- Jason McKiernan @ Next Projection
- Excerpt: You will never see the concept of “family ties” represented in quite the same way that Park presents it here, which is probably a good thing in the long run. But for the 99 minutes that Stoker flickers on the screen, it’s a sour dose of family anti-values that goes down positively sweet.
- Brent McKnight @ Beyond Hollywood
- Ryan McNeil @ The Matinee
- Excerpt: We should clearly know what the outcome will be, but something about the way things are mixing together makes us think maybe this time, it will be different. Spoiler alert: It never is.
- Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
- Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: Stoking the flames.
- Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Tiago Ramos @ Split Screen [Portuguese]
- Jamie S. Rich @ DVD Talk
- Excerpt: Stoker is always interesting to watch, even as some teases and cues end up coming to nothing. Luckily, the movie’s very last scene ends up being a perfect finale, a stinger that garners just the right reaction from an unsuspecting audience, meaning that regardless of how invested you were in what got you there, you’ll likely leave the theater feeling pretty okay with what you saw.
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: Stoker never quite seemed to pull the trigger, but the intense and shocking build up made the hunt well worth it.
- Amir Siregar @ Flick Magazine [Indonesian]
- Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Werid Movies
- Excerpt: …lurid, loopy, and occasionally lovely, no masterpiece but a passable guilty pleasure.
- Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Wentworth Miller’s screenwriting credit is a dead giveaway to “Stoker’s” imminent failure.
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: A visual marvel but lacks the nightmarish logic that would keep it from seeming insufferably affected and pretentious.
- Ed Whitfieldq @ The Ooh Tray
- Amber Wilkinson @ Eye For Film
- Excerpt: The heightened sense of India’s reality is mimicked by Park’s style and Miller’s creations, who are pushed into the realm of melodrama and perilously close to caricature in pursuit of gothic thrills.
