Jason Anderson of The Grid Toronto has posted a piece on the TIFF retrospective featuring the films of Keanu Reeves. He notes that most of the films chosen are the ones that are usually featured on the television channel TBS.
Of all the films chosen for the series, he feels that A Scanner Darkly is the most deserving of reassessment. He has the following to say of Keanu Reeves’ performance:
Richard Linklater’s despairing adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s sci-fi allegory about drug addiction boasts Reeves’s most poignant performance to date. Playing an undercover narcotics agent who’s too addled to realize that the suspect he’s surveiling is himself, the actor looks more haggard than handsome, the boyish energy that was long part of his screen persona having been replaced by a deep and palpable anguish. It’s a performance that might’ve silenced the last of Reeves’s naysayers had they noticed it.
The entire article can be read here.