Undergods Reviews
The subtext may not be subtle, but what Moya's film lacks in nuance it makes up for in terms of ambition.
| Original Score: 3/5 | May 17, 2021
You have to work your way through it, but if you allow it to overwhelm you, it's really quite striking.
| May 13, 2021
A riptide of surrealism runs through Chino Moya's ambitious debut feature, a fantasy suite of tales that don't so much interlock as butt into one another and blurt out alarming, dreamlike correspondences.
| Original Score: 4/5 | May 11, 2021
Coming at the same themes from different angles, the three lessons serve to upend the comfort and perceived control that fathers, husbands and first-world patriarchs have traditionally enjoyed.
| May 10, 2021
Look past the uneven narrative and you'll find a new cinematic voice with something to prove, and the formal prowess to back it up.
| Original Score: 3/5 | May 6, 2021
In this head-turner of a debut, Chino Moya plunges us into dystopia's darkest underbelly for a collection of terror tales that are often tied to the seven deadly sins.
| Original Score: 3/4 | May 6, 2021
Undergods' is an interesting concept about capitalism, but that does not make for a good movie.
| Original Score: C- | Apr 29, 2021
This arresting first feature blends sci-fi and fantasy to create a worldview which is at once savagely grotesque and alarmingly familiar.
| Aug 31, 2020