"Critics Pick! A work of art — vivid and mysterious and full of life." —A. O. Scott, The New York Times

“Moving, revelatory, and often funny." —Alan Scherstuhl, The Village Voice

"The best film about China in the twenty-first century that I've seen to date... compiles three years of footage shot during rides on China's extensive railway system. A cow stomach is sliced into edible bits; a man puffs on a bamboo cigar-holder between compartments; the filthy floor is lined with cigarette butts and sleeping human bodies; a precocious little boy sarcastically encourages the crowd to piss and shit in the aisles." —Travis Jeppesen, Artforum

"Sniadecki offers a formally controlled look at the range of classes, the implied changes wrought by China's economic boom, and the interactions particular to train travel. Refreshingly, Sniadecki allows the film — or rather, some passengers — to engage in politics, from the rights of minorities to economic pressures." —Jay Weissberg, Variety