Chan-wook Park is a wickedly assured visual storyteller. In fact, I’m not sure there’s anybody better at doing what he does. The South Korean director of “Oldboy” and “Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance” ...

A spider crawls up the leg of 18-year-old India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska) early in Park Chan-wook’s English-language debut, “Stoker,” and she regards it passively, intrigued. There’s a creepy intruder ...

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The way the latest clip for Stoker plays out, you’d think the trailer out of the Sundance Film Festival was a promo for a quirky new teen drama — until the end. And that’s when things get creepy. But ...

There is one particular visual metaphor in Stoker, South Korean director Park Chan-wook's opulently gruesome English-language debut, that indicates its intentions so bawdily that the audience, or my ...

Director Park Chan-wook's first movie in English may be more conventional than his earlier films, but it's still a sleek, nasty thriller. This being Park, of course, the screenplay (by Prison Break's ...

“Stoker,” which plays something like a remake of “The Addams Family” mixed with “The Paperboy” — but without the laughs of either – belongs in a special category of movie badness, or perhaps two ...

Marking a solid Stateside debut for South Korean helmer Park Chan-wook, Fox Searchlight’s stylistic suspenser “Stoker” scored the best per-screen average over the March 1-3 frame, with $22,935 from ...