After 'Everything, Everywhere, All At Once' and 'John Wick Chapter 4,' here are the top 25 martial arts movies to see.
Akira Kurosawa's classic, 3 1/2-hour, black-and-white film is a beautifully rendered, Oscar-nominated masterwork that not only broke ground for all the martial arts movies that followed in its path, but Westerns as well. The story of a group of sword-wielding samurai defending a bandit-tormented village was the inspiration for the gun-slinging"The Magnificent Seven.
Michelle Yeoh in the movie that made her well-known in mainstream America, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."There's a sub-genre of Chinese martial arts films called wuxia that is set in ancient times in a land where warriors can soar at will. They are far more poetic and elegant than their smash-and-punch counterparts and Ang Lee's"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," starring Chow Yun-fat and Michelle Yeoh and the winner of four Oscars, is a sumptuous take on the form.
The one that started it all. Directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch play to Keanu Reeves' taciturn strengths in this revenge-action franchise about an ex-hit man hunting down his foes that has now spawned three sequels.Photo: The Criterion Collection
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