On those days when my fiancé and her kids are out of town I like to commandeer the television, large bourbon in hand, and watch movies no one else in the house wants to watch.

I’d been told repeatedly that Snow Piercer is a brilliant dystopian film, but, I couldn’t imagine how a movie about a bunch of people—the last vestiges of humanity—on a train racing around a frozen earth could be intriguing.

I was wrong. The film is spectacular.