Gondry, Carax, and Bong work up three riffs not on Tokyo but on "Tokyo"-all reasonably diverting and offering distinctive curlicues on the title's exclamation point.

Full Review | Oct 20, 2014

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

My problem is that even though the three weird stories are intriguing and of interest in their own right, but when compiled as one film they seemed undeveloped.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Nov 9, 2011

All three screenplays were probably composed on the plane to Japan. With any luck, this trend will die out.

Full Review | Aug 16, 2011

If Tokyo! has a unifying idea, it's the devastating effect loneliness has on the psyche, an interesting choice given Tokyo's status as one of the world's densest cities.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 30, 2009

Tickles, repulses, and beguiles

Full Review | Aug 25, 2009

Sandwiched between Gondry and Bong's variously euphoric entries, Carax's contribution seems either a work of deep cynicism from an inveterate party-pooper or a welcome satirical sour note from one of the great talents of 80s and 90s French cinema.

Full Review | Aug 8, 2009

Some may consider it a callous critical evaluation. In truth, it's nothing short of a luxuriant love letter.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 21, 2009

The most deft touch belongs to Gondry.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 5, 2009

Paris, New York and even Toronto have all gotten their due in a recent wave of city-centric omnibus films that let world-renowned auteurs run wild in their streets. Yet none of these yielded anything as strange or as idiosyncratic as Tokyo!

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 5, 2009

Perhaps it is inevitable as three foreign directors train their lenses on that unique island culture of the East that all three are propelled by fantasy or science fiction, and suggest more alienation from Tokyo than affection for the great city.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 5, 2009

The oddness is sort of refreshing.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 14, 2009

This triptypch of short flicks about the Japanese capital by non-Japanese filmmakers is wildly intriguing to me, as someone who has never been there but would like to visit...

Full Review | May 12, 2009

Taken together, the three movies in Tôkyô! create a frightful, smart, and lingering impression.

Full Review | May 7, 2009

With the three-director -- Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, Bong Joon-ho -- multistory film Tokyo!, the first really exciting piece of filmmaking of 2009 comes to town.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 29, 2009

A collection of three films that try to capture the experience of living in that crowded Japanese city.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 24, 2009

Grasping a unifying theme from the three distinct tales is one of the pleasures of watching the movie. Loneliness gets my vote, but Tokyo! is adventurous enough to spark many different theories.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 16, 2009

Three very different directors...travel to the land of the lotus blossom to lend their collective eyes to a world that is Tokyo!

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Apr 9, 2009

Tokyo! wins points for one thing: These are stories you definitely haven't seen before, and nowadays originality is sometimes enough.

Full Review | Apr 9, 2009