There is perhaps no contemporary director working who is as hard to define as Nicolas Winding Refn. The Danish native has an extraordinary eye and renders truly realized visions. His films are all ...
It takes a special kind of movie to be this awful, and indeed, a mindset to have such singular firmness in one’s abilities to create a film that is so far beyond contempt. To put it another way, I ...
Sometimes, a film comes along and most audiences just don’t know how to wrap their head around it. Some of those films find a strong life in the coming years on home video platforms, while others sink ...
As visually resplendent as it is narratively vacant, “The Neon Demon” is a sicko-slick shlock-shock horror show that mixes low-end grindhouse taboos with high-grade arthouse aesthetics. It aims ...
Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...
The Neon Demon is a spectacularly beautiful and superficial movie about absolutely nothing. On the surface, which is all there really is, it’s about a delicate teenager named Jesse (a pure-hearted ...
Nicolas Winding Refn’s most well-known film, Drive, was rapturously received by critics at its Cannes premiere in 2011. Writing for The Guardian, Xan Brooks lightheartedly observed how after ...
Director Nicolas Winding Refn found inspiration in both the '80s and his own color blindness for his latest film — a saturated descent into femme-fatale hell. “Intense” only begins to describe the ...