The Neon Demon's reviews
Media reviews
The Telegraph
A glittering nightmare, drenched in cold sweat, with a dark (...) energy.
The Playlist
Spectacular, gross and delicious (...) the film is more proof of Refn?s mastery of his trash aesthetic.
Indiewire
This grotesque, hyperstylized treatise on the fashion industry recaptures some of the zany images and B-movie abstractions of Refn's crossover effort, 'Drive', though it never quite gels on the same level of inspiration.
The Guardian
There is style and chutzpah in this vampiric story of supermodel cannibals ? as well as a superb central turn from Elle Fanning ? yet it lacks the focus and wallop of his earlier work.
Variety
Nicolas Winding Refn has made a baroquely kinky gross-out surrealist horror film set in the L.A. fashion world. It's not boring, but there's less to it than meets the eyeball.
The Hollywood Reporter
A stultifyingly vapid, ponderously paced allegorical critique of the modeling world (...) The film?s main allures are its visual and aural sensations.
El Mundo
A movie so clumsy and sick of myself as, finally, boring
ABC
A monumental loss that has at least the virtue of going from bad to worse with a constancy worthy of study. (...) The script submits to Fanning to all kinds of crap until a second part where the embarrassment is general.
El País
Silly things happen up to a crazy ending. And you ask yourself: "What this guy has been taken ?"
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote