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Amid the rumble, Sniadecki's camera spies such a variety of life that it soon seems as though these trains provide a stage for the full spectrum of human activity. Aug 27, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Amid the rumble, Sniadecki's camera spies such a variety of life that it soon seems as though these trains provide a stage for the full spectrum of human activity.
David Ehrlich
Filmmaker J.P. Sniadecki withholds judgment and resists editorializing, but the result is frustratingly nebulous and devoid of context. Aug 20, 2015 | Full Review…
Filmmaker J.P. Sniadecki withholds judgment and resists editorializing, but the result is frustratingly nebulous and devoid of context.
Martin Tsai
"The Iron Ministry" is neither boring nor confining, which is just to say that it's not a long trip through a faraway country. It's a work of art - vivid and mysterious and full of life. Aug 20, 2015 | Full Review…
"The Iron Ministry" is neither boring nor confining, which is just to say that it's not a long trip through a faraway country. It's a work of art - vivid and mysterious and full of life.
A.O. Scott
The overheard conversations touch on social issues (e.g., China's rapid industrialization and rampant unemployment) addressed more thoroughly in numerous recent Chinese films. Aug 20, 2015 | Full Review…
The overheard conversations touch on social issues (e.g., China's rapid industrialization and rampant unemployment) addressed more thoroughly in numerous recent Chinese films.
Ben Sachs
What emerges is a sense of an optimistic people well aware of how hard times can be but convinced they might be getting better. Aug 18, 2015 | Full Review…
What emerges is a sense of an optimistic people well aware of how hard times can be but convinced they might be getting better.
Alan Scherstuhl
The parallel tracks of railways and cinema profitably converge yet again in J.P.Sniadecki's outstanding, semi-experimental documentary The Iron Ministry, a pungently immersive evocation of traveling on Chinese trains. Aug 17, 2015 | Full Review…
The parallel tracks of railways and cinema profitably converge yet again in J.P.Sniadecki's outstanding, semi-experimental documentary The Iron Ministry, a pungently immersive evocation of traveling on Chinese trains.
Neil Young
Some of these trains are very old and rickety. Others are very new, fast, and flashy. All are linked into one movement through the film's 82 minutes. Aug 23, 2018 | Full Review…
Some of these trains are very old and rickety. Others are very new, fast, and flashy. All are linked into one movement through the film's 82 minutes.
Charles Mudede
It's curious about people in a way that's frankly old-fashioned. Feb 15, 2018
It's curious about people in a way that's frankly old-fashioned.
Steve Erickson
For a fly-on-the-wall ethnographic film, Iron Ministry is surprisingly funny. May 19, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
For a fly-on-the-wall ethnographic film, Iron Ministry is surprisingly funny.
Joe Bendel
The Iron Ministry is a rather odd work for many reasons, even if its depiction of class and ethnicity on various trains across modern China captures an essential moment. Mar 2, 2016 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
The Iron Ministry is a rather odd work for many reasons, even if its depiction of class and ethnicity on various trains across modern China captures an essential moment.
Peter Labuza
A subtly political film about the hopes and frustrations of ordinary Chinese citizens that is as dramatic in its own odd way as a kung-fu costume drama. Feb 12, 2016 | Full Review…
A subtly political film about the hopes and frustrations of ordinary Chinese citizens that is as dramatic in its own odd way as a kung-fu costume drama.
Louis Proyect
Seamlessly rides many rails through China to intimately experience sounds, sights, and even smells, alongside restless people on the move through space and economic change. Aug 22, 2015 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
Seamlessly rides many rails through China to intimately experience sounds, sights, and even smells, alongside restless people on the move through space and economic change.
Nora Lee Mandel
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