A corroded diving bell descends amidst a ruined city and the Assassin emerges from it to explore a labyrinth of bizarre landscapes inhabited by freakish denizens.... (Full plot summary below)
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A corroded diving bell descends amidst a ruined city and the Assassin emerges from it to explore a labyrinth of bizarre landscapes inhabited by freakish denizens.
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| RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsImagine, if you will, a dystopian nightmare set in a post-industrialized world that’s forever teetering on its last legs, but never quite falls over. This description does not, admittedly, tell you much, but the movie’s less of a narrative-driven parable than a dazzling and corrosively cynical vision of a hyper-compartmentalized society that’s struggling to both die and reset. |
| Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerThere's a narrative of sorts in Mad God, but it's episodic and disconnected. It's less a story than an anthology built around exploration of an ecosystem. |
| The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisStrange and squelchy and all kinds of sick, Mad God comes at you with nauseating energy, its flood of dystopian images both playful and repulsive. |
| Paste MagazineDom SinacolaTippett purges his Id until he’s wrung the last bit of bile from the Assassin’s journey, but even throughout all the harrowing imagery, the director never loses a sense of cinematic wonder. |
| Slant MagazineChuck BowenMad God offers a dense cornucopia of genre-fueled outrageousness that’s gradually united by a concern with cycles of warfare. |
| The GuardianLeslie FelperinThis is undoubtedly a work of historic significance, made by a master in his field – but beware that it often feels like a film-making notebook, full of doodles and ideas but not especially cohesive as a story. |
| Entertainment WeeklyDarren FranichFor anyone who loves stop-motion animation, the first 40 minutes of this bleak adventure will scratch your trippy itch and then some. |
| IndieWireRafael MotamayorAfter four decades of crafting creatures for iconic films, Phil Tippett has finally unleashed his magnum opus, and it is worth the wait. Mad God exudes devotion, with every frame carrying decades worth of ideas and craft, resulting in a film that is just as hard to describe as it is hard to forget. |
| Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayThe word “visionary” gets tossed around too much, but there’s really no better way to describe the spectacularly bleak animated science-fiction film Mad God or its creator, Phil Tippett. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenMostly a work of stop-motion, the movie boasts expansive, intricately detailed sets that the eye can’t help but want to explore, despite the horrors that take place among them. |
