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By Roz Laws (210) for Birmingham Post (543) on 06 Mar 2013

Slow to get going, with long looks and tension-filled silences, but it draws you in and becomes very compelling…

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By Leonard Maltin (609) for leonardmaltin.com (584) on 04 Mar 2013

At first, Stoker resembles a twisted variation on Alfred Hitchcock's 1943 thriller Shadow of a Doubt, with Matthew Goode in the role of Uncle…

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By Philip French (1,151) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 03 Mar 2013

[A] wild, watchable, relatively brief, deeply annoying thriller…

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By Kate Muir (612) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 02 Mar 2013

A strange hybrid, which dips into spurty horror and Lynchian parody, with added sexual awakening and shoe fetishism…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for honeycuttshollywood.com (375) on 01 Mar 2013

The glee of the outrageous one gets from a true trash movie vanishes here to be replaced by a deadening sense of the filmmakers' calculation…

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By Kofi Outlaw (158) for ScreenRant (1,013) on 01 Mar 2013

Those hoping for a thrilling mystery will find that Stoker is not that at all, as it explicitly reveals its true intentions in ways you're…

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By Jason Buchanan (161) for TV Guide (1,527) on 01 Mar 2013

Elegant direction helps to elevate a lackluster screenplay, but a game cast play things a bit too cool for comfort in Stoker…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 01 Mar 2013

Park employs all manner of cinematic derring-do – shock cuts, off-kilter compositions, discontinuous storytelling – all to no great purpose…

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By Evrim Ersoy (10) for Electric Sheep (203) on 01 Mar 2013

Although the film will have its detractors, it's hard not to be impressed with what Park has achieved here: a Korean movie in Hollywood clothing,…

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By Tara Brady (805) for Irish Times (1,391) on 01 Mar 2013

The results are exquisite, enigmatic and enrapturing, in the way a date with a preying mantis might be…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 01 Mar 2013

You could argue that this film is all lurid style over substance, but there's actually a lot going on behind the stunningly gorgeous imagery…

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By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 01 Mar 2013

A dreamy, claustrophobic thriller about family secrets and lies, alternates between genuine creepiness and a disconcerting goofiness that undermines…

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By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 01 Mar 2013

A juicily perverse Southern Gothic creepfest…

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By Lucy Barrick (16) for Radio Times (2,421) on 01 Mar 2013

Kidman's immobile, slightly scary face is used to great effect; Goode oozes malevolent charm; and Wasikowska skilfully keeps you guessing as…

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By Michael Bonner (121) for Uncut Magazine [UK] (201) on 01 Mar 2013

The play between the three leads is terrific - a bit bonkers, quite creepy, often over-the-top…

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By Richard Corliss (1,032) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 01 Mar 2013

The movie is less to be experienced than to be appreciatively studied, like an insect, a stuffed bird, or the sketch by a gifted artist in…

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By Rick Groen (1,350) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 01 Mar 2013

Park is busy treating every frame like a runway model, dressing it up in self-conscious layers of cinematic haute couture…

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By Bruce Kirkland (531) for Jam! Movies (2,396) on 01 Mar 2013

Stoker is a chilling and profoundly disturbing thriller about grief and wanton desire…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 01 Mar 2013

Park isn't interested in simply trendy material and edgy effects; a former philosophy student, he wants to weave it all into a genuinely disturbing…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for Time Out Chicago (129) on 01 Mar 2013

You may be dazzled or exasperated by this flurry of stylistic excess. You probably won't be bored…

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