The 16 Best Movies Of 2019 | HuffPost

The 16 Best Movies Of 2019 | HuffPost:

Nothing comes close to the mastery of “Parasite,” Bong Joon-ho’s twisty crowd-pleaser about class dimensions in South Korea. The rare foreign film to become something of an American phenomenon, “Parasite” treats everyone as victims of capitalism’s clutches, from the struggling family living in a dank semi-basement apartment to the upscale clan who employs them. What starts as a social comedy becomes a tense thriller set amid a country — a world, really — that is robbing its population of mobility. Bong, one of the craftiest filmmakers alive, threads that needle in unpredictable ways. He disguises a deeply meaningful parable in the clothes of an electric blockbuster, proving that neither subtitles nor sophistication should be an impediment.