The Neon Demon of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali's groundbreaking surrealist short "Un Chien Andalou" – that all you can do is howl or cheer." Tirdad Derakhshani, writing for "The Philadelphia Inquirer", called Refn a "bold visionary artist... able to revel in the culture of instant gratification while also subjecting it to critique", giving the film three and a half out of four stars and calling it a "brutal masterpiece". Rene Rodriguez of "The Miami Herald" wrote positively of the film's visuals and experimental filmmaking, writing, "To complain that "The Neon Demon" lacks substance or that it doesn't have anything to say about
Invisible Adversaries Export and Su Friedrich," referred to "Invisible Adversaries" as a feminist version of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", noted that the film includes references to famous paintings and to "Un Chien Andalou", and wrote that therefore it "is visually rick, entertaining, striking, but also demanding." A few reviews, however, were negative. For example, London's "Time Out" wrote about the film that it is "[n]ot unlike """ and that it will "probably age as badly" and a reviewer for "The Heights" wrote that "I was expecting a great feminist work here, but got mediocrity. I cannot recommend that you see this