The Assassin , IQ Score 163/200
The Assassin has an IQ Score of 163/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.
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The TVI Take
Hou Hsiao-hsien's 2015 Cannes Best Director-winning film, a 9th-century wuxia film about a female assassin commanded to kill the cousin she once loved. The structural commitment to letting Taiwanese-cinema slow-pace formal language render the wuxia genre at register subsequent genre cinema has rarely attempted is the catalog's most-formally-distinctive entry.
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