"The first film in eight years from the Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-Hsien is an immaculate treasure box of light, texture and movement – though just when you think you’ve pinned it down, it slips your grasp as nimbly as its lead character darting through a silver birch grove. For the first time in his estimable 35-year career, Hou has made a wuxia, or period martial-arts film… If you’ve seen swordsmen and/or women bouncing through a bamboo forest, you’ve seen wuxia – yet you’ve almost certainly never seen it carried off with this degree of delicacy and refinement. There’s a little forest-bouncing here, but the fight scenes are few and far between." - Robbie Collin, The Telegraph
The Assassin (Taiwan/China/Hong Kong/France: Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2015: 107 mins)
The Art of Action: Martial Arts in the Movies (USA: Keith Clarke, 2002: 105 mins)
The Assassin Critics Round Up (Ongoing Archive)
Brooks, Xan. "The Assassin Director: Why I Gave Plot the Chop." The Guardian (January 11, 2016)
Bradshaw, Peter. "The Assassin review - enigmatically refined martial arts tale baffles beautifully." The Guardian (May 20, 2015)
Ganjavie, Amir. "When Minimalism Meets the Martial Art Tradition: An Interview with Hou Hsiao-hsien." Senses of Cinema #75 (June 2015)
Goldberg, Max. "Hou’s Killer Instincts with THE ASSASSIN." Keyframe (October 15, 2015)
Guillen, Michael. "'A Different Space and Time': Hou Hsiao-Hsien on The Assassin (2015)." Bright Lights Film Journal (November 21, 2015)
Patterson, Cleaver. "The Languid Approach of Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s The Assassin." Film International (January 30, 2016)
Scott, A.O. "The Assassin Finds Delight in a Deadly Vocation." The New York Times (October 15, 2015)
Udden, James. "The Assassin: Personal Reflections." Observations on Film Art (June 1, 2015)
Weston, Hillary. "Hou Hsiao-hsien on the Films That Changed His Life." Current (October 20, 2015)
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