'Stoker': Shadow of an homage, infused with violence ★★ 1/2

A young woman's reddish-brown hair, in close-up, dissolves into an overhead shot of wild reeds, eased this way and that by the wind. "Stoker" would be nothing without such flourishes. The film swims in them, and cares little for conventional narrative tension.

Michael Phillips

February 28, 2013