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The Neon Demon

2016

Nicolas Winding Refn

Elle Fanning, Karl Glusman, Jena Malone, Bella Heathcote ...

5.6

10,516

Horror. Thriller When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw 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. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"A glittering (...) nightmare, drenched in cold sweat, with a dark (...) energy. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy 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."	NEU
United States	Brian Truitt USA Today	"Like David Lynch after hanging out at New York Fashion Week (...) Refn’s sumptuous visuals and disco-synth score help give Neon undeniably sinister style (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Refn seems to saying that the beauty business is superficial and needs to be avoided. Ditto this movie (...) Rating: ★½ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"'The Neon Demon' (...) It’s trippy and pretentious and off-putting and occasionally funny, though it’s difficult to say for certain whether the humor was intentional (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman 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."	NEU
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"Languorously paced and literally dressed to kill, the movie is a corrosive attack on beauty — or at least our soulless, corporatized definition of the term — but it is also, above all else, a hypnotically beautiful object"	POS
United States	Jessica Kiang The Playlist	"Spectacular, gross and delicious (...), the film is more proof of Refn’s mastery of his trash aesthetic."	POS
United States	Eric Kohn 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."	NEU

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