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Zhou Yun

The Assassin

Review: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin on Well Go USA Blu-ray

by Jake Cole
January 26, 2016

Its veneer of abstract dispassion gradually reveals a heartfelt alternate history that lives up to the genre’s notions of nobility.

The Assassin

Review: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin

by Jesse Cataldo
September 18, 2015

The film finds delicate poetry in the dispassionate pursuit of revenge.

Warriors of Heaven and Earth

Review: Warriors of Heaven and Earth

by Ed Gonzalez
July 4, 2004

What is the film’s Buddhist idol but a lazy MacGuffin used to excuse a last-act contrivance of soulless CGI brouhaha?

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