The Wrap has posted their review of The Neon Demon. You can read the piece for the more detailed synopsis and specific points. They end by saying:
“The Neon Demon” is worthy of those boos and that abuse, and you can’t take it seriously for a second. But it’s also ridiculously, gloriously, stupidly entertaining, if you’re in the right mood.
In the synopsis of the cast of characters we learn the following about Keanu’s character:
…and the motel manager who might be a murderer and is definitely a pimp (Keanu Reeves).
Update: Eric Kohn has reviewed The Neon Demon for the Indiewire and gave it a B-.
Update X2: Owen Gleiberman reviewed the film for Variety. Go read this one. He had the following to say about Keanu and his character:
Even worse is the motel caretaker, a real abusive dog played, in a highly convincing change of pace, by Keanu Reeves.
There’s a very good scene — in its diseased way, the most effective one in the film — in which Reeves’ motel manager takes out a knife and does something exquisitely awful with it. (bolding mine)
Update X3: Robbie Collin reviewed The Neon Demon for The Telegraph and gave it 5/5 stars. Another good read to get the flavor of the film. He also described Keanu’s character as a lecherous thug.
Update X4: Jasmine Valjas reviewed the film for The Upcoming and gave it 4/5 stars. A few quotes:
With Elle Fanning, Keanu Reeves, Jena Malone’s unnerving performances, the plot is voluntarily loose and doesn’t even dare steal the spotlight from the compositions and hallucinating sequences of the film.
The Neon Demon is, indeed, some kind of demon to which the mind and the eye have to give in, and then can be fascinated by.
Update X5: Luca Celada has reviewed the film for The Golden Globes. She closed the review with the following:
Perhaps most of all Neon Demon is an unabashed proclamation of Refn’s passion for cinema’s lurid pleasure, an invitation into the director’s cabinet of delicious horrors, as well as his hall of smoke and mirrors tilted just so, to keep the audience off-balance.
Todd McCarthy reviewed the film for The Hollywood Reporter.
Update X6: Alex Billington reviewed the film for FirstShowing and gave it 8.5/10. The review ended with the following:
It’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen before, even though it has touches of Black Swan and Heathers and borrows from Dario Argento, it’s still a vividly mesmerizing dream-like creation that gets appropriately bloody and gruesome and nasty. It’s still beautifully shot with another amazing score by Cliff Martinez. Refn knows how to make films that really get under the skin of certain people, and that makes me love his work even more.
Giovanni Marchini Camia reviewed the film for The Film Stage and gave it a D.