It could not be done better. They pulled no punches with this movie.

| Original Score: A+ | Jul 16, 2020

Train to Busan is horror as it should be: intelligent, fun, and celebrating life with every mad twist and new take on death that it can find.

| Aug 25, 2018

Director Yeon Sang-ho makes smart use of the cramped quarters, and while it's true that his zombies' abilities tend to vary according to the requirements of the moment, it's easy to overlook amid the onslaught of action and emotion.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 6, 2017

As with Romero's still-peerless original, Train to Busan infects its zombie DNA with a keen social and political awareness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 2, 2016

A zombie movie content not to aspire to any loftier subtextual readings needs little more than a skilled choreographer of action, and there's plenty of evidence that this film had one in Yeon.

| Dec 1, 2016

Train to Busan is an intense and intimate thrill ride that plays like Snakes on a Plane meets 28 Days Later.

| Nov 4, 2016

Characters you can't help but care about? Check. A spot of amped-up social commentary? Double check. Lashings of bloody, bite-y mayhem? Triple check.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 2, 2016

Moving nimbly from the confrontational animation of The King of Pigs and The Fake to the more mainstream live action of Train to Busan, Yeon retains a sharp graphic sensibility that pays snappy dividends.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2016

The zombie movie takes the bullet train in Train to Busan, a smart horror that contrasts the hyper-cleanliness and efficiency of South Korean life with bloody, neck-biting chaos.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 27, 2016

Yeon keeps us guessing until the nervy closing seconds.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 27, 2016

Funny, scary and with its heart in the right place.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 27, 2016

Yeon has come up with a take on zombies that is rooted deep in the genre but still feels innovative.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 27, 2016

Less effectively, the movie has some rather obvious social comeuppances in mind and you'll groan at the contrivances. Just wait a few minutes and you'll get to the next action sequence, in which Yeon is more confident.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 22, 2016

Really, the result is first-class throughout.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 24, 2016

It may not be something we've never seen before, but it's something we can benefit from seeing again.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 4, 2016

The most purely entertaining zombie film in some time, finding echoes of George Romero's and Danny Boyle's work, but delivering something unique for an era in which kindness to others seems more essential than ever.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 22, 2016

"Train to Busan" is really a feast for the scary, gymnastic bit players: contorting their bodies, baring teeth and running full bore. On this express, they're a first-class menace indeed.

| Jul 22, 2016

Sprinting right out of the gate, the director, Yeon Sang-ho, dives gleefully into a sandbox of spilled brains and smug entitlement.

| Jul 21, 2016

Breathless and brutal, the film is akin to someone smashing together 28 Days Later with Snowpiercer and then convincing Mad Max's George Miller to help out on some of the action scenes.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 21, 2016

Yeon Sang-ho has instantly transformed himself into Korea's go-to-guy for zombie movies.

| Jul 18, 2016