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By Daniel Gelb (83) for AllMovie (142) on 22 Jun 2016

Pretension and poor writing dressed up as art-house cinema…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 22 Jun 2016

Since this is a movie by director Nicolas Winding Refn ... it's only a matter of time before the abstract violence becomes literal…

Review of The Neon Demon (2016)

By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 22 Jun 2016

If you want a movie that eviscerates “The Hunger” and eats its bloody insides while daring you to look away, here it is…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 21 Jun 2016

Style doesn’t triumph over substance in The Neon Demon. It devours it…

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By Julian Roman (454) for MovieWeb (460) on 21 Jun 2016

The Neon Demon is both enthralling and disgusting, with Nicolas Winding Refn turning in one of the most visceral film experiences of the year…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 21 Jun 2016

Presumed to be Nicolas Refn's foray into the horror genre, but apparently, no one bothered to tell the filmmaker that…

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By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 21 Jun 2016

L.A.'s high-fashion industry gets eaten alive and puked back up in Danish provocateur Nicolas Winding Refn's psychosexual satire on the quest…

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By Luke Y. Thompson (1,447) for Forbes (586) on 21 Jun 2016

Ironically, the movie is what it critiques: it's shallow, and it's brutal...but it is very, very pretty to look at…

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By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 21 Jun 2016

The narratively challenged film seems conflicted: It critiques our obsession with models and beauty and style, even as it obsesses about those…

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By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 21 Jun 2016

Elle Fanning is eminently watchable as a teenage ingenue at risk of being swallowed whole by the modelling industry, but Winding Refn only…

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By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 21 Jun 2016

Minimalism and maximalism, a languorous rush of images and wall of music hangered onto a fairytale of an underage girl who arrives in LA in…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFrightFile.com (124) on 21 Jun 2016

The Neon Demon doesn't always—or almost ever—go where one expects, but it plays into everything there is to love about cinema…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 21 Jun 2016

Refn has shown that he's a director who knows how to say things with energy and imagery and verve. Now if he could only find something worth saying…

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By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 21 Jun 2016

Characters only exist as empty archetypal vessels and some of the wackier elements are laughably campy, but Refn’s sumptuous visuals and…

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By Steve Persall (1,105) for Tampa Bay Times (1,287) on 21 Jun 2016

What truly makes The Neon Demon frustrating is Refn's undeniable talent for arresting images…

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By April Wolfe (199) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Jun 2016

Whether or not you connect with Refn's brand of over-the-top violence, you can't deny that his attention to color, texture, and music is nearly…

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By Michael Roffman (138) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 20 Jun 2016

This is a film predicated on voyeurism, and while it’s arguably another big ol’ starefest from Refn, the viewer’s patience is earned…

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By Pablo A. Scholz (320) for Clarín (492) on 20 Jun 2016

Not the best work of the Danish director, he seems lost ever since he did that great film called Drive. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Will Leitch (411) for The New Republic (897) on 20 Jun 2016

A deadly combination of self-seriousness and self-indulgence that's more about the obnoxious petulance of its director than anything else…

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By Ian Freer (515) for Empire (3,446) on 19 Jun 2016

The Neon Demon pulls off the unique feat of being both boring and bravura all at once…

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