The Neon Demon

"Bold, bloody, and kind of boneheaded, Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest isn’t for everyone. A wallow in the world of high fashion, it unfolds like a glitter-bombed nightmare."

"It's not boring, but there's less to it than meets the eyeball."

""The Neon Demon" is hot garbage that dares you to call it offensive. In addition, it's offensive."

"When Fanning is off screen, we are marooned in a fashion shoot in a hell of silliness. Yet her star quality gives The Neon Demon what substance it has, and Refn's film-making has self-belief and panache. Take it or leave it."

"A special kind of awful. I'd talk about the acting, but I never saw any; it's all posing. Director Refn seems to saying that the L.A. beauty business is superficial and needs to be avoided. Ditto this movie."

"An outlandish art-trash horror film."

"Like Refn's one-dimensional women, this movie thinks it's profound when it's really just drop-dead gorgeous."

"Nicolas Winding Refn's latest film is a self-indulgent exercise in style. But what self-indulgence, and what style!"

"A stultifyingly vapid, ponderously paced allegorical critique of the modeling world whose seethingly jealous inhabitants can't wait to literally chew each other up and spit each other out."