Short Ends and Leader’s Best Movies of 2014
From brazen biopics to murky examinations of marriage, Short Ends and Leader's picks for 2014's best flicks are a compelling bunch.
Snowpiercer
‘Snowpiercer’ Encapsulates Class Warfare In a High-Speed Train
By compressing its revolutionary struggle into such a tightly compressed and void-encircled space, Bong Joon-Ho's evocative post-apocalyptic actioner, Snowpiercer, becomes furiously kinetic but metaphorically overburdened.
Train in Vain: Bong Joon Ho’s ‘Snowpiercer’
Bong Joon Ho's Snowpiercer is a terrific, dark dystopian nightmare mixed with flashes of Terry Gilliam-esque absurdity and the filmmaker's own fractured frame of reference.
The End is Always Near in ‘Snowpiercer Volume 1: The Escape’
Imagining the world ending is a safe kind of fantasy because, deep down inside, we don’t think it can actually happen.