Alex Ramon Sight & Sound May 28, 2026

Still, the film’s visions of male insecurity in corporate and domestic contexts resonate, suggesting wider cycles of exploitation and consumption occurring in the office blocks and workhouses that are impressively rendered in its fine, varied design.

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Gavin Spoors FILMHOUNDS Magazine Aug 4, 2025 4/5

Writer and director Chino Moya's feature length debut is an anthology unlike anything you've seen before.

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Guillem Martinez Oya Cinematismo Jun 30, 2022 4/5

A fable about the ruins of the old myth of Europe with a powerful images and sounds. [Full review in Spanish]

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Laurence Boyce VODzilla.co May 5, 2022 4/5

A fitting metaphor for the creeping sense of unease and disconnection that seems to be prevalent throughout much of the modern world.

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Alix Turner Ghouls Magazine Jun 21, 2021 3.5/5

Although at the start Undergods looked like yet another dystopian picture, it was presented in such an interesting style and with strangely engaging characters that it wasn't "yet another" anything.

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Daniel Gorman In Review Online Jun 5, 2021

Recalls Monty Python or even the films of Roy Andersson...If it all winds up feeling a bit pat, a little too satisfied with itself, it's still a wild journey.

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Hilary A White Sunday Independent (Ireland) May 29, 2021 3/5

Undergods is not a light watch, although it is done with humour; nor will it be to everyone's taste. But if thought-provoking dystopian treatises on society float your boat, you will be a happy sailor.

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Tom Meek Cambridge Day May 17, 2021 2/4

None of it fully gels, and neither do any of the baroque personas onscreen ever register any depth of character...

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Alistair Lawrence Common Sense Media May 17, 2021 2/5

Undergods has plenty of style, but not much substance. While this anthology of stories takes place in a well-shot, visually rich world, its characters rarely talk or behave in believable ways.

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Mark Kermode Observer (UK) May 17, 2021 3/5

The subtext may not be subtle, but what Moya's film lacks in nuance it makes up for in terms of ambition.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid May 14, 2021 3/4

What it all means is up for debate... but it nonetheless feels sharply relevant.

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Matthew Taylor Starburst May 13, 2021 4/5

As a whole piece, Undergods is something of a Marmite movie. It'll work for some, but not for others.

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Tim Cogshell FilmWeek (LAist) May 13, 2021

You have to work your way through it, but if you allow it to overwhelm you, it's really quite striking.

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Phil Hoad Guardian May 11, 2021 4/5

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.

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Mark Hughes Forbes May 10, 2021

[P]oignant, hypnotic sci-fi that examines the raw nerves of the human condition while the world falls apart.

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Peter Debruge Variety May 10, 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.

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Peter Canavese Celluloid Dreams May 8, 2021 3/4

Extremely distinctive, adventurous, moody, bleak, very dark and worth-all-the-effort dystopian tale that feels like a movie of the moment.

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Dann Gire Chicago Daily Herald May 8, 2021 2/4

A bold, bleak apocalyptic drama filled with loathsome characters...

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Andy Crump Paste Magazine May 7, 2021 5.9/10

Undergods impresses as a stylish arrival, but what's under the surface needs finessing.

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Dennis Harvey 48 Hills May 7, 2021

Undergods is visually atmospheric, its mood heightened by a Tangerine Dream-like synth score from Wojciech Golczewski. But it's also rather dull and random, with stories that do not go anywhere...

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