Michelle Yeoh answers her Oscar with a scalpel — and John Wick’s team is selling it at TIFF
Michelle Yeoh plays a retired surgeon who is forced to operate on a crime boss and turns her medical skill against her captors.
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TIFF 2026 Review: Michelle Yeoh cuts deep in 'The Surgeon'
Editor’s Note: Vanyaland film editor Nick Johnston has left the country, posting up this week in the Great White North to cover the 51st Toronto International Film Festival. As usual, and perhaps now more than ever, we wish we were up there with him! Check out our continuing 2026 coverage, get rolling with our official curtain-raiser, and revisit the complete Vanyaland coverage archives from past TIFF editions. There are few better pleasures tha…
‘The Surgeon’ Review: Michelle Yeoh Doctors a Gang of Mobsters to Death in a Fun Little Action Movie That Gets by on Its Grossness
It’s been 18 years since “Taken” came out, and bad guys still haven’t learned not to fuck with — older, seemingly harmless — people who have a very special set of skills. Rarely have those skills been more special, or at least more specialized, than they are in Roshan Sethi’s “The Surgeon,” a sedate but gruesome action thriller in which sixtysomething Michelle Yeoh violates the Hippocratic Oath with extreme prejudice after some gangsters kidnap …
TIFF Review: The Surgeon Finds Michelle Yeoh Playing a Dangerous Game of Life or Death
The filmmaker credit isn’t simply attributed to Roshan Sethi. No, The Surgeon was written and directed by Roshan Sethi, MD. It’s a distinction he obviously earned, but also one that says you can trust the meticulously executed violence on-screen. Just because the action is presented in an unorthodox way as a means of entertainment beyond […] The post TIFF Review: The Surgeon Finds Michelle Yeoh Playing a Dangerous Game of Life or Death first app…
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