Stoker
Reception

Stoker (2013)

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7.0
5 platform(s) · 7 ratings 217,721 votes
7.5/10 93,719 votes Synced 2026-08-08
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Audience 6.6/10 226 votes Synced 2026-07-19
Critics 5.8/10 Synced 2026-07-19
Audience 6.0/10 Synced 2026-07-18
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6.6/10 2,488 votes Synced 2026-09-16

External reviews

Steve Persall · Tampa Bay Times 83.00/100.00

Stoker operates in a perpetual state of dread, a sophisticated Southern gothic that starts out confusing and winds up as a perversely humorous coming-of-age yarn.

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Richard Roeper · Chicago Sun-Times 88.00/100.00

The chilling and stylish and aggressively creepy Stoker begins at the end and takes us on a shocking and lurid journey before we land right where we started, now seeing every small detail through a different lens. It's disturbingly good.

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Tasha Robinson · The A.V. Club 83.00/100.00

Anyone already planning on seeing Stoker, the English-language film debut of Oldboy and Thirst director Park Chan-wook, shouldn’t read this review. Or watch a trailer. Or read anything about it at all, really...It’s best taken one tense, exhilarating moment at a time, without anticipation or expectation.

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William Goss · Film.com 83.00/100.00

Park allows this macabre coming-of-age tale to be defined by mood and style above all else.

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Olly Richards · Empire 100.00/100.00

An intense mix of horror, thriller and domestic drama, this is exquisite film making.

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Kevin Harley · Total Film 80.00/100.00

Park Chan-wook brings operatic finesse to generic material in his tight-wound, wickedly weird US debut. And Mia Wasikowska nails it.

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Jeremy Kay · The Guardian 80.00/100.00

Literary references and symbolism abound in Stoker. You can get tied up trying to figure out who is what. That is the idea. All the clues are there. You just have to look closely.

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Eric Kohn · IndieWire 83.00/100.00

More blatantly an exercise in style than anything on par with the director's crowning achievements, and suffers to some degree from the predictability of its premise.

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Guy Lodge · Variety 80.00/100.00

A splendidly demented gumbo of Hitchcock thriller, American Gothic fairy tale and a contemporary kink all Park's own.

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John DeFore · The Hollywood Reporter 80.00/100.00

Park's unsettling visuals and his handling of the cast make the occasional holes in Wentworth Miller's script practically irrelevant.

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