The audience may have built their hopes in the beginning, but their stoic patience is never rewarded – if anything, Refn throws at them one crazy scene after another, never sparing them any of his nonsense.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 2, 2024

This is a world that is anything but subtle, and to approach this material in any other way would have defeated the purpose.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 18, 2024

Hidden meanings, hidden messages, watching it for the first time it leaves you thinking its insanely great.

| Aug 7, 2023

Refn provides a movie with universal appeal, displaying how pathetic and desperate human beings can be in their moments of weakness, insecurity and greed.

| Jun 22, 2023

Beauty is the beast in this a horror film as fashion layout.

| Oct 29, 2022

An unredeemable and unsustainable exercise of petulance and artistic capriciousness. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 4, 2022

Gorgeous to behold and boasting a score worth downloading, The Neon Demon may contain an astounding third act, but Refn takes far too long to establish what is blatantly obvious within the first few scenes.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 11, 2022

A trademark film from Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn: moments of genius and madness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 5, 2021

I was very surprised by the way this story was handled... you really get sucked in.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 29, 2021

The Neon Demon is very much like a Dario Argento film in his haydays. You have to enjoy it for its aesthetics and mood. Let it wash over you and you will be richly rewarded.

| Feb 14, 2021

It would be perverse to give away its unlikeliest turns, but suffice to say that it is sometimes a pleasure to sit in a room with people who did not know what movie they had signed up to watch

| Jan 6, 2021

This banal yarn about innocence lost becomes almost sleep-inducing with all of the abrasive music and editing that attempt to turn every moment into a dream sequence.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Dec 5, 2020

This film uses the mediocre to feed the most insipid symbolic devices of the psychological horror genre. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 27, 2020

The Neon Demon is a beautiful film, but it is so much more.

| Apr 1, 2020

While we all know modeling and high fashion are hard industries with lots of backstabbing and manipulation, Refn's take is more surreal and unnerving.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 25, 2019

Even in moments when we're supposed to be scared or thrilled, particularly in the tacky third act, you laugh at the absurdity.

| Original Score: 1/10 | Aug 7, 2019

The Neon Demon offers, without a doubt, incomparable style and substance.

| Aug 6, 2019

The cinematography is so seductive, so sensual, that when paired with Cliff Martinez's pulsating score, The Neon Demon becomes something impulsively alluring even if it leaves one feeling rather icky.

| Aug 2, 2019

It's an examination of superficiality, although one without a desired layer of actual subtext, attempting to terrorize with instances of Grand Guignol, which often feels adolescent when such shock values fail to seem perverse.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 23, 2019

There's something pernicious in a world that places such a high premium on how a woman looks, but little of that feels explored. It's all a surface reading at best, but that's to be expected from a film so concerned with getting skin deep.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 17, 2019