Every so often I will go into a film expecting one thing and walk out not only satisfied but also a bit contradictorily disappointed. Tokyo! is one of these films. It's an anthology and love letter to the city, with three segments shot on location and directed by non-Japanese filmmakers Michel Gondry, Léos Carax, and Bong Joon-ho. Perhaps the biggest fault that most will find with this film is the same of most other anthologies: one of the segments is…

I've been having a frustratingly difficult time putting into words just how brilliant Lars von Trier's Europa truly is. It is an incredibly complex film that has many layers to it and can be quite easy to become lost because of it. However, it is also a hypnotic film in the most literal sense, beginning with narration from Max von Sydow as he uses hypnosis to transport viewers into Europa, overlapping the surreal and almost static image of the trailing…