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.

| Oct 20, 2014

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

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

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!

| 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.

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

All three films deal with things hidden, or disappearing, or suppressed. But Tokyo, if anything, becomes more of a mystery after Tokyo! than it was before.

| Apr 9, 2009

Although each portion of Tokyo! has a distinct flavor, this sampler of undercooked fish stories has a cumulative effect, one that is trippy if not toxic.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 9, 2009

Tokyo! is a must-see for the Gondry segment, and a strange, diverting pleasure for the rest.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 9, 2009

If you've seen Paris, je t'aime or New York Stories, you know the rate of return on these urban omnibuses is variable, and so it is here. Go in expecting minor pleasures and you'll be fine.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 9, 2009

A splendid and compelling head trip.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 9, 2009

To each, the metropolis is a dense atom; its inhabitants, electrons crammed together but straining to avoid collision.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 21, 2009

The overall project succeeds at offering three tantalizing films for the price of one movie ticket.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 20, 2009

By turns playful and melancholy, provocative and sentimental, all three of the shorts that make up Tokyo! seem like direct responses to the city itself as well as being jumping-off points for each director's personal quirks.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 20, 2009

Worth seeing for anyone who calls themselves a fan of any of its directors or weird anthology films in general.

| Mar 13, 2009

Three directors, three films, three reasons to rethink moving to Tokyo.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 12, 2009

Isn't likely to make many best-of-2009 lists, but its originality in an era of cookie-cutter moviemaking is greatly appreciated.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 6, 2009

With Tokyo itself playing a varied role in each film, the setting clearly served its purpose, inspiring three decidedly unique points of view.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 6, 2009

The refusal of Tokyo! to proffer even the most perfunctory air kiss is what makes it so intriguing.

Full Review | Mar 6, 2009

The entries aren't equally strong, of course, but each comes from a sharp outsider's perspective, approaching Tokyo as a strange, mysterious organism that infects the populace.

| Original Score: B | Mar 5, 2009

For the new omnibus feature Tokyo!, Bong Joon-ho, Leos Carax and Michel Gondry were invited to make a film in the Japanese capital.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 4, 2009