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Critics Kinda Like 'Stoker,' Love Mia Wasikowska

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We have been super excited to see Stoker since we first heard the script, written by the stupid hot Wentworth Miller, had been optioned. Then came the news that Chan-wook Park would direct and the film would star the ridiculously talented Mia Wasikowska, and we just knew this would be one of the best films of 2013. Have you seen that amazing trailer?

Well, the reviews are in, and it seems the film is good, just maybe not the masterpiece we were expecting.

See what some critics had to say below.

"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." - Chicago Sun-Times

"As a connection forms between India and Charlie -- a sexually skewed mirror, maybe, of the deep bond she had with her father -- Park's unsettling visuals and his handling of the cast make the occasional holes in Wentworth Miller's script practically irrelevant. It's hard to guess whether India is a heroine about to slay a dragon or a beast being born. In the world of Stoker, that seems like a perfect definition of adolescence." - THR

"The actors give it their all. Kidman is all nerve endings and sexual longing; Goode excels at hidden agendas. And Wasikowska, the bright star of Jane Eyre and Alice in Wonderland, is a fearless wonder as she boldly descends into Park's rabbit hole of psychological terror. Park has built a hothouse of erotic tension that's primed to explode. Some will fi nd it too much. Screw them. Park's goal is to bust form, not conform to it. Take Stoker for what it is: a thriller of savage beauty." - Rolling Stone

"Wasikowska drabs herself down. Her body is undefined in dowdy clothes, her hair hangs limply. But her eyes usher you into her inner world, with its battle between girlish longing and the impatience to move on and be what she really is—whatever that might be. It’s a richer performance than the movie deserves. As her mother, Kidman doesn’t rise above the material in the same way. The character is brittle, repressed, useless at connecting with her daughter, helpless to keep from being magnetized by her dead husband’s more accessible younger brother—and the casting is too on the nose. Kidman’s face is a tight mask, her neck crazy-long, as if stretched to the snapping point by force of will. It’s hard to look at her, frankly—or at her most frequent scene partner, Mr. Bulgy. You know you’re in scary company when the warmest character is played by Jacki ­Weaver—who raised the bar for psychotic matriarchs in Animal Kingdom." - NY Mag

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