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Tag: Assassins

The assassin is a professional with a code, which is why the character never goes out of fashion. This tag collects reviews of assassin films and the craft questions behind writing a killer an audience will follow.

Matt Damon as Jason Bourne stands in a Paris apartment after a fight, looking shaken and bloodied, with a ballpoint pen

The Bourne Identity (2002) Review

September 10, 2026

The Bourne Identity (2002) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Doug Liman fought the studio through a chaotic shoot, put a fight scene in a Paris apartment with a ballpoint pen, and reset what an action film…

Frank Sinatra and Angela Lansbury in a tense scene from the 1962 political thriller, with shadowy lighting and black and

The Manchurian Candidate (1962) Review

September 10, 2026

The Manchurian Candidate (1962) rates 10 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Frankenheimer made a political thriller that is also a comedy, a nightmare and a story about a mother, released it thirteen months before Dallas, and Angela Lansbury…

George Clooney as Jack, a gunsmith, working with precision on weapon assembly in a stone Italian village. TITLE: The

The American (2010) Review

September 10, 2026

The American (2010) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Anton Corbijn made a slow European art film about a gunsmith in an Italian hill town, Focus marketed it as a George Clooney thriller, and it opened at…

Bullet Train (2022) film poster

Bullet Train (2022)

May 17, 2026

David Leitch's 2022 Brad Pitt action-comedy. Five assassins on the same Tokyo bullet train, each with overlapping missions.

Le Samouraï (1967) film poster

Le Samouraï (1967)

May 17, 2026

Melville's 1967 French crime film. Alain Delon as the hitman in trench coat and fedora.

The Killer (1989) film poster

The Killer (1989)

May 17, 2026

John Woo's 1989 Hong Kong heroic bloodshed film. Chow Yun-fat as a hitman trying to retire.

13 Assassins (2010) film poster

13 Assassins (2010)

May 17, 2026

Takashi Miike's 2010 samurai siege film. Pairs with Seven Samurai as the modern remake the genre needed.

John Wick 1-4 (2014-2023) film poster

John Wick 1-4 (2014-2023)

May 16, 2026

Keanu Reeves as the retired assassin. Action choreography that reshaped contemporary American action cinema.

The Greatest Assassin Films

The Greatest Assassin Films

March 22, 2026

From The Day of the Jackal to The Killer — twenty assassin films that take the moral question seriously. What does killing for money cost, who does it, and what does the work make of them? The genre at its…