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LGM Film Club, Part 444: The Assassin

By Erik Loomis

In General

On January 10, 2025

Because I curate my film watching pretty carefully, I usually end up liking the films I watch. But it's always useful to discuss a film I didn't care for much. This leads us to Hou Hsiao-Hsien's 2015 attempt to combine a wuxia film with his...

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