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This predecessor to Netflix hit arrives only a few months after the postapocalyptic original, though it isn’t being released by the streamer. Thankfully, that curious distribution situation is no reflection on the film’s quality. A slick hybrid of and , Um Tae-hwa’s thriller follows survivors of a cataclysmic earthquake in Seoul as they form an isolationist community in the only apartment complex that evaded destruction. Offering acute insight into how authoritarianism can burgeon in crises, it’s a riveting spin on the disaster-movie template.
