... a high-speed metaphor speeding down the science fiction tracks of genre cinema.

Full Review | Sep 8, 2023

Snowpiercer is one of the best films of the respective decade. With a brilliant screenplay, Bong Joon-ho delivers an extremely complex narrative, filled with emotionally shocking character development, and featuring excellent stunt work.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Jul 24, 2023

Bong Joon-ho’s first English-language film is this incredible world about class, global warming, and the price of freedom.

Full Review | Feb 22, 2023

The film's strength lies in the way the screenplay's built. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 5, 2022

This graphic novel adaptation is a blend of science fiction and social commentary that plays out like a video game... With it comes Chris Evans’ finest performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 10, 2022

It’s a visual delight.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 25, 2022

Thoughtful, provocative, and far more enjoyable than your average blockbuster, Snowpiercer's pure entertainment value is outmatched only by its sobering commentary on the continual inhumanity of the human race.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 5, 2022

If you needed any more convincing of Bongs versatility as a director, credit should be given to the fact that this is an English-language film from a Korean director, that uses language and cultural perspective as a tool in the movies very storytelling.

Full Review | Feb 21, 2022

Snowpiercer examines a class system that refuses to die no matter the circumstances. Director Bong Joon-ho constantly asks whether a person must accept their preordained place in society for the sake of balance and harmony.

Full Review | Jan 22, 2022

Part allegory, part Hero's Journey, Snowpiercer makes no concessions about its religious and political metaphors, and it is all the stronger for it.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 30, 2021

Its satire of actual class warfare is as cutting as the axes the rebels and guards use.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Aug 31, 2021

An extraordinary work of climate-change fiction, with bold visuals, gripping action, shocking violence and a brutally clear allegory for the class system.

Full Review | Aug 27, 2021

It's just as interested in examining topics like climate change, class, and cultural disparity as it is in revealing just how the film's core team navigates a never-stopping hell train to take on the bad guys.

Full Review | Jul 28, 2021

An environmental thriller - if you haven't already seen Bong's "The Host" do so now! - that is unapologetically weird, keeping the audience off balance for the entirety of its two-hour running time.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 1, 2021

Overflows with ideas, encompassing the spectrum from vividly bizarre to profoundly mesmerizing.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 4, 2020

Insanely brilliant.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 26, 2020

It has plenty of action, while the story contains an unexpected intelligence. It has a message, but never gets too preachy. It's very violent, yet avoids being overly bloody. It's dark, but knows when to lighten the mood.

Full Review | Jul 14, 2020

Bleak and grim and almost desolate, there is a spark of hope, just enough to keep the gloom and doom from becoming oppressive.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Jul 7, 2020

[It] holds great promise yet never finds its track.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 11, 2020

A riveting mix of disturbing drama and edgy action, seasoned with sharp wit.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2020