To call Andrea Arnold’s American Honey a “great film” would be an understatement. American Honey is an extraordinary experience, albeit a subjective one. American Honey is entirely what one makes of it. It’s highly unlikely that any two viewers will have the exact same experience with this film, but there is something for everyone to love about it.

Perhaps the most common critique of Nicolas Winding Refn’s divisive film The Neon Demon is the claim that the film is “all style, no substance.” However, this argument is exactly the point that Refn is trying to make. The film focuses on the theme of vanity and condemns society’s hollow obsession with physical beauty. The way in which the film critiques this idea is by acting as an allegory.