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” ...

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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 ...

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 ...

R. 98 minutes. At the Mayan. 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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It’s a shame we won’t get to see what his riff on Raimi or le Carré would look like.

, now on Blu-ray, was the final film produced by the late Tony Scott. It’s also the first English-language production directed by acclaimed South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook. Aside from those two ...

Nicole Kidman plays a mama with some melodrama in 'Stoker' South Korea's Park Chan-wook has made bloody movies about revenge, murder, perversion, amputation. He is a popular force in Korean cinema and ...